Uranium company director Ken Talbot and Arkaroola corruption charges
The death of Ken Talbot in an airplane crash puts a stop to the legal proceedings that have been ongoing over corruption charges, and the murky history of uranium miner Marathon resources.
The charges concerned $300,000 allegedly paid by Talbot to Nuttall while Nuttall was a Minister of the Crown. Nuttall was sentenced in July this year to seven year’s jail…………
Arkaroola uranium hunter on bribery charges, The Independent Weekly, HENDRIK GOUT17 Oct, 2009 The owner and director of the largest shareholder in the company which the state government allows to explore the Arkaroola wilderness for uranium, Marathon Resources, is awaiting trial on charges of having bribed a government minister.
Ken Talbot of Talbot Group Investments Pty Ltd is accused of corruptly making payments to Gordon Nuttall, then a Labor minister in the Queensland Government…………In December 2008, Gordon Nuttall and Ken Talbot were committed to stand trial on 35 corruption charges.
The charges concerned $300,000 allegedly paid by Talbot to Nuttall while Nuttall was a Minister of the Crown. Nuttall was sentenced in July this year to seven year’s jail…………
Marathon was found guilty in early 2008 of illegally dumping radioactive waste in a variety of locations throughout the Arkaroola wilderness sanctuary.
The sanctuary, part of the northern Flinders Ranges, is world renowned for its spectacular scenery and is one of SA’s premier ecotourism destinations. It is a high mountain refuge surrounded by vast desert plains and the nationally threatened yellow-footed rock-wallaby’s last stronghold .
Arkaroola uranium hunter on bribery charges – Local News – News – General – The Independent Weekly
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Your site is doing a great job exposing the issues not covered widely at all, but this information is now very relevant with regard the new stage of Marathon, Leigh Creek Energy Project – Undergound coal gas..yuck and the corruption behind it is now very releavnt
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Thank you, Graham. I am not at all up to date with this, and am relying on the good work of South Australia’s dedicated environmentalists – mostly publishing on Facebook sites, and on commentators such as yourself
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