Antinuclear

Rio Tinto’s ERA Ranger uranium mine doomed by Climate Change?

Today’s Australian newspaper covers the very drastic threat now posed to Kakadu National Park by by flooding and sea level rises.

These climate changes mean that Kakadu is further threatened by radioactive waste leaks from theRanger uranium mine.

ERA’s uranium mine is surely no longer viable, and it is high time that RioTinto closed it down permanently and stopped this charade of  Northern Territory uranium mining having an economic future – Christina Macpherson

Kakadu treasures ‘at mercy’ of climate-change floods * Sid Maher : The Australian * June 03, 2011 KAKADU faces more flooding and a loss of freshwater flora and fauna as a result of sea-level rises caused by climate change.

A report released yesterday by the Climate Change Department predicts that over the next 20 to 60 years, there will be more large floods on the South Alligator River, which is in Kakadu National Park.

The predictions are based on models predicting 143mm of sea-level rise by 2030 and 700mm of sea-level rise by 2070…… Kakadu treasures ‘at mercy’ of climate-change floods | The Australian

June 3, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | climate change - global warming, Northern Territory, uranium | climate change - global warming