Martin Ferguson working hard to promote uranium industry
WA Labor urged to face ‘uranium reality’ 9 News, josh Jerga 9 June, The West Australian Labor Party will have to “front up to the reality of life” in deciding whether to continue opposing uranium mining, Federal Resource Minister Martin Ferguson says.
WA Labor’s policy to ban uranium mining in the state is expected to come up for debate at its state conference later this month.
Last month, Mr Ferguson told a uranium conference in Sydney the WA Labor Party’s position was “ridiculous and not sustainable” and urged it to reconsider the policy.
On Thursday, however, the resource minister was more measured in his words, telling an International Uranium Conference in Perth the WA Labor Party had a hard decision to make….
…according to figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, companies spent $84 million on uranium exploration in WA during 2010.WA Mines Minister Norman Moore said it was an 87 per cent increase on the previous year, in which companies spent $45 million during 2010…
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