The threat of uranium mining to Tanzania’s environment
(relevant because Australian companies are trying to mine in Tanzania) Clear key concerns on uranium mining, The Citizen, 07 September 2011 Tanzania’s quest to allow investors to mine uranium in the Selous Game Reserve faces stiff opposition from some local and foreign wildlife conservationists.
Unesco’s World Heritage Committee maintains that the country should only allow in investors after an environmental impact assessment has been undertaken.And now, a Germany-based group calling itself Tanzania Network, has plunged into the fray. Its secretariat has reportedly written to President Jakaya Kikwete, through Tanzania’s ambassador in Berlin, Mr Ahmada Ngemera, pleading with him to halt plans of awarding uranium mining licences to any international company.
The organisation says it is concerned with the dangers that uranium poses to lives of living organisms as well as to the environment. …
Judging from the arguments by the government and conservationists, one notes that there is a sense of mistrust and some ignorance within the matter.It is evident that environmentalists don’t trust the government. Probably, they feel the country may blindly undertake a project that would have negative ramifications on the lives of its own people and the invaluable wildlife.
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