Australian company Mantra Resources part of Tanzania’s unholy uranium mess
How many firms have been involved in that particular area down the years? Apart from these two, names have been bandied about, including Australia-based Mantra Resources, and Russian Uranium/Uhuru-One! I’m told foreign companies routinely deal with each other outside the ambit of the government, thereby denying Tanzanians their rightful
entitlements in tax and other revenues!
Uranium resource curse already in near-full bloom in Tanzania! The C itizen, 18 August 2012 22:31 Karl Lyimo, The unholy mess that’s steadily but surely engulfing Tanzania in the Government’s equally unholy quest to exploit posthaste the country’s God-given uranium deposits is ample evidence – if further evidence were needed! – that there’s indeed such a gnomish malady as a natural resources curse!
You only have to witness the way different interested parties are
throwing verbal and written ‘punches’ at each other and at everybody
else… All in vainglorious efforts to protect and preserve their
perceived interests – mostly pecuniary, but with a smattering of
nobleness here and there!……
The situation remains a catastrophic nightmare. Did GF consult and
involve the government in Dar es Salaam when entering into the
compensation pact with the prospectors?
How many firms have been involved in that particular area down the years? Apart from these two, names have been bandied about, including Australia-based Mantra Resources, and Russian Uranium/Uhuru-One! I’m told foreign companies routinely deal with each other outside the ambit of the government, thereby denying Tanzanians their rightful
entitlements in tax and other revenues!
Fragmented explanations from the government aren’t enough. Ordinary
Tanzanians want a full account if we’re to forgive each other and
start exorcising the natural resources curse that’s threatening to
doom Tanzania http://thecitizen.co.tz/sunday-citizen/-/24992-uranium-resource-curse-already-in-near-full-bloom-in-tanzania
No comments yet.
1.This month.
The Road to War brings a sharp focus to why it is not in Australia’s best interest to be dragged into a war with China which will almost inevitably go nuclear very quickly. The filmmaker has interviewed some of Australia’s senior foreign policy analysts who have vast experience behind them in analysing what really is going on here as the United States rattles its sabres with China. And sets us up to be its proxy, like the poor Ukranians have been fed into the Meatgrinder. So America can remain the Top Dog. The Road to War reveals how the United States through its spy base at Pine Gap and by stationing six nuclear capable B52 bombers in the Top End (without permission from the traditional owners) is making Australia a prime nuclear target if the current war of words suddenly melts down into full scale war.
The Road to War shows the implicit connection between Carbon emissions (the US military uses a whopping 70% of America’s annual petroleum to move its armies and vast War Machine around the globe to its 800+ military bases..but under a loophole wangled at Kyoto, the US military does not have to report its C02 annual emissions). The Road to War starts screening at selected cities and regional centres in March. See the trailer end for details.
Antinuclear 
Leave a Reply