Antinuclear

Bleak prospects for Australian uranium miners: most States and ACT ban uranium mining

Olga Galacho reports in the Herald Sun ,  19 Dec “….In Western Australia, a pro-uranium conservative government faces a Labor Opposition that wants the mining banned. It is in WA that Toro will next year begin extracting uranium for the first time in that state from its $300 million Wiluna mine.

In Queensland, a state Labor government opposes uranium mining, unlike the Labor governments in South Australia and the Northern Territory.

In NSW and Victoria, freshly elected conservative governments have maintained their Labor predecessors’ ban on uranium
exploration……”It takes two election cycles to get a uranium operation up and running and in Australia, this is considered too high a political risk.”…..”

December 19, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, politics, uranium