Australia keen to sell uranium to Middle East, never mind the unrest there
“Doesn’t matter whether you’re a Communist dictatorship or a Middle Eastern Emirate” … “it seems Australia is more than happy to do the bidding of the uranium mining companies….a bad time to start selling uranium to the Middle East, given the unrest sweeping the area.”
Australia may sell uranium to UAE, Ipswich Queensland Times, Adam Gartrell, 9th March 2011 .Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam said the move was “profoundly unhelpful” to global non-proliferation efforts. AUSTRALIA is paving the way to sell uranium to the United Arab Emirates.
Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd has announced the government will begin negotiations with the UAE on a bilateral nuclear safeguards agreement, a precursor to uranium sales…….”We’re calling on the Australian Government to publish a list of who it’s not intending to sell uranium to,” Senator Ludlam told AAP.”Doesn’t matter whether you’re a Communist dictatorship or a Middle Eastern Emirate … it seems Australia is more than happy to do the bidding of the uranium mining companies.”Australian Conservation Foundation anti-nuclear campaigner David Noonan said it was a bad time to start selling uranium to the Middle East, given the unrest sweeping the area.”Why would we be inserting Australian uranium into that unstable region?”
The Australian Uranium Association welcomed the announcement….
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