Antinuclear

As the legislation for the tax is due to be debated in the House of Representatives next week, Greens leader Bob Brown said he was in talks with his party colleagues on moving an amendment to include not just coal and iron ore but uranium.

Senator Brown told reporters in Canberra the decision came after Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced she would seek approval of the Labor national conference to back the sale of uranium to India.

Labor has long opposed India being able to buy Australian uranium because it is not a signatory to the nuclear non-proliferation treaty…..

“It seems logical to me, in an age where health care and public education are short of funds right around this country, should we not be taxing the largely foreign ownership of our uranium mines?” Senator Brown said.

“We will be looking at adding that amendment in the light of the huge change that we are seeing not just in the promotion of uranium to India by Prime Minister Julia Gillard but with the uranium prices going up.”

Senator Brown said he had no doubt that Australian uranium “is going into nuclear weapons or making it possible for other uranium to go into nuclear weapons in some of the most volatile circumstances around the world”. He said it remained Greens policy to stop all uranium exports. http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/business/a/-/business/11757119/greens-want-mrrt-on-uranium/