Olympic Dam – an additional NEW URANIUM MINE, not an expansion – GET THE FACTS
VIDEO Watch David’s speech ( in parts 1, 2 , and 3) at:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL12527ECAAD16B9B8&feature=viewall Olympic Dam mine will fuel nuclear disasters like Fukushima & leak radioactive waste – Pt 1 Anti-nuclear campaigner David Noonan, formerly of the Australian Conservation Foundation, provides invaluable insights into the operation, past and present of the Olympic Dam mine and what it represents to the post-Fukushima world. Designed to leak millions of litres of radioactive tailings from the mine back into the earth, the mine will continue to lower the water table in the Great Artesian Basin (drawing up to 42 million litres from the aquifer each day, free of charge to BHP Billiton)* principally for the purposes of dust control. The mine’s increased output of Uranium will turn South Australia into a major contributor to the risk of nuclear disaster, through the sale of fuel for power generators and potentially nuclear weapons via export markets in China, Russia and in the probable future, India. Be sure to watch all three parts of this video, and for further information visithttp://cuttlefishcountry.com
*latest agreement makes a charge, pretty much a token – for 240 megalitres of water daily from GAB
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL12527ECAAD16B9B8&feature=viewall
BHP Billiton’s proposed desalination plant to exterminate Australia’s iconic Giant Cuttlefish?
Save the Giant Australian Cuttlefish and Upper Spencer Gulf The Point Lowly Peninsula is the only known place in the world where hundreds of thousands of Giant Australian Cuttlefish gather to breed. We need your help to urge the State Government of South Australia to protect this wildlife phenomenon from proposed industrial impacts.
Other fish species also spawn in the area including Snapper, Western King Prawns, Squid, Eagle Rays and Port Jackson Sharks. The Upper Spencer Gulf ecosystem also supports resident dolphin pods plus visiting whales, endangered sealions and turtles.
A desalination plant is currently proposed for the Point Lowly Peninsula. If approved, its operation will release salty brine into this sensitive ecosystem. Scientific studies have shown that increased salinity kills cuttlefish and squid eggs.
The Giant Australian Cuttlefish and Upper Spencer Gulf fish nurseries need your help. Sign and share our petition and urge our State Premier to insist on relocating the proposed desalination plant to a less vulnerable area. http://www.thepetitionsite.com/7/save-the-giant-australian-cuttlefish-upper-spencer-gulf/
Aboriginal elder warns of Kalta – nature’s revenge for huge Olympic Dam uranium mine
THE LIZARDS REVENGE, DLF – Desert Liberation Front, Response to the governments decision to expand Olympic Dam mine. Sleeping underneath the ground there is an old lizard, Kalta the sleepy lizard. The lizard ain’t so sleepy anymore.
BHP is mining right into that Lizards body. The government has just approved an expansion of the Olympic Dam uranium mine, making it the biggest uranium mine in the world.
Kalta is angry and wants revenge. Arabana elder Kevin Buzzacot is calling the people of the world to help the lizard shut down the mine. He is calling for people to come and heal the land in the name of peace and justice for the next 10,000 generations to come.
The land is being irreversibly poisoned in and around Roxby Downs by the tailings dam causing dust and ground water contamination, and contamination of its workers.
The uranium is taken all over the world and used to kill the land and all its creatures. It’s destroying lives not only in Fukashima, with the reactor meltdown, but in the depleted uranium shells that children play with in the streets of Iraq and Kosovo.
With the governments numerous attempts to put a nuclear waste dump at Muckaty in the Northern Territory there is a danger that radioactive waste will be brought back, opening Australia up to accepting nuclear waste from all over the world. Lets stop the deadly cycle where it starts.
The land the lizard and the creatures of this earth are summoning everybody who gives a shit to the gates of Roxby Downs on the 14th of july 2012 for The Lizards Revenge – This is an open invitation to all people and a special call out to artists, musicians and activist community groups and media to get involved in the creation of this autonomous zone for the peace and healing of this land.
Evil monster from underground – Navajo land and people poisoned by uranium mining
Cleanup takes on uranium monster in Monument Valley, By Judy Fahys, The Salt Lake Tribune, Oct 16, 2011 Monument Valley • An old story tells how the first Navajos made a choice that shaped their destiny.
They embraced yellow corn pollen over yellow uranium. And they concluded unearthing the radioactive rock would unleash evil from the underworld.
But in the rush to fuel atomic weapons and nuclear reactors, Navajo lands yielded tons of the yellow rock, and the heavy machinery that dug it up left behind a hazardous legacy.
Here, below the Skyline Mine, about a mile from the famous Goulding’s Trading Post, the Navajos’ worst fears about uranium came true. Tumors and cancer and a host of other maladies plagued families living on the valley floor in Skyline’s shadow. So did a nagging fear. Continue reading
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