Antinuclear

Northern Territory News, Grusha Leeman, Tiwi 12 April 11, LAST night I went along to a public meeting to hear from Yvonne Margarula, senior traditional owner of the land on which the Ranger uranium mine operates.  She is very sad. The broken promises keep coming but the problems stay.

I don’t remember Ranger Mine ever being so out of control. The heavy wet season and inadequate investment in water management has giving us a brimming tailings dam and a mining pit full of toxic water.

Who would plan to spray strong acid on rock piles in Kakadu (a method never tested in the tropics)?  I suppose it will only be a matter of time before there is yet another acid spill on the pot-holed Arnhem Highway.

And who would extend by stealth deep under the old billabong and creek — as if it is exploring, but knowing it cannot mill the ore within the leased time?

Rio Tinto’s ERA, of course.

Yvonne has had enough, and so have I.

It’s time to start rehabilitation works.

Kakadu is a stupid place for a nuclearwastedump — let’s not make it any worse.