Latest promotion from Australian Uranium Industry – lacking in confidence
“…an extended period of uncertainty…..A mistake by one operator or explorer or project developer in our industry affects all of us.”
Fukushima puts Australia’s uranium industry on the
defensive Independent Australia, 2 Sept 11, The Australian nuclear industry feels the heat after the Fukushima calamity, but spins on gamely. Noel Wauchope reports.
With plummeting uranium prices, and increasinglybad news about Fukushima radiation, Australia’s uranium industry is well and truly on the back foot. But the industry battles on with religious fervour in its belief in the future uranium boom. Continue reading
Australia’s Liberal Party out to kill Renewable Energy – but what’s their alternative?
There must come a point where the nation’s Liberal leaders and aspiring leaders come clean on their plans for renewable energy. If it is not something they want to support then they should be ready to let us know what is their alternative.
New laws toss energy jobs to the wind, The Age,2 Sept 11, The nation is poorer for the Liberals’ stance on the ‘green-collar’ sector. IT IS a telling coincidence that Premier Ted Baillieu’s new anti-wind farm laws have been sharing the headlines with Australia’s manufacturing malaise. The Clean Energy Council estimates the laws will drive $3.6 billion of investment away from Victoria. Continue reading
Flooding in Paladin and Rio Tinto uranium mines in Namibia
Namibia Q2 uranium production down | Industrial Fuels and Power August 30th, 2011 Uranium production in Namibia decreased from 2.35mlb to 2.09mlb in the second quarter of 2011 when compared with the previous quarter.“This was largely due to adverse weather conditions, with some of the mines becoming flooded with the abnormally heavy rains seen this year,” financial group Capricorn Investment Holdings said.Namibia’s uranium is produced by Rio Tinto and Australia’s Paladin Energy.
Namibia Q2 uranium production down | Industrial Fuels and Power
Radioactive uranium drums on beach, in Namibia,where controls are slack
It’s easy to see why Australian uranium mining companies like to develop projects in African countries,where they’re not hampered by annoying environmental and security legislation – C.M.
This isn’t the first time this sort of thing has happened in Namibia…. [last time] the material came from another major uranium mine, Rössing Uranium, 69% of which is owned by the British-Australian Rio Tinto Group, one of the largest mining companies in the world.
Drums of radioactive uranium found on beach, Care 2 by Andreas S., August 30, Last week, Namibian authorities discovered four unguarded barrels of radioactive uranium oxide on a beach near the coastal town of Swakopmund. Continue reading
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