Antinuclear

What a uranium company CEO thinks of the Australian media

Funny – I go through the uranium so-called news each day. What I find there is a succession of obvious handouts from the uranium lobby, presumably to grateful journalists, who don’t bother to check the accuracy of these uranium market  forecasts .  Article after article has glowing predictions for the financial boom to come, (just a little later) from investing in uranium.

Nearly every article concentrates on China.And, I think to myself.  Do these uranium dreamers ever consider that the Chinese might be intelligent?  That they might notice how unpopular nuclear power has become globally, and the reasons why (-  economic, and safety). Yes, China is reported as planning to expand its nuclear power programme. Oh goody!  They might want our uranium! But what if China wakes up to the dismal outlook for nuclear, elsewhere.

But never mind. The Australian media dutifully regurgitates the China uranium-buying boom to come, – no mention of the other countries (especially India’s political mess over nuclear power).  We carefully ignore the nuclear decline in  Germany, Switzerland, USA, UK, even France.

However, the poor old uranium lobby still thinks itself to be hardly done by Australia’s government and media.- Christina Macpherson

Marathon Resources Chairman , Peter Williams, lambasts Government on resources industry attitude – today’s A.G.M. 22 Nov 12, 

“……..The overwhelming influence of environmental and heritage activists and bureaucrats in South Australia in recent years, supported by Government, has seen the pendulum swing far away from balanced development and economic growth….

The SA Government’s actions in the North Flinders have jeopardised the State’s reputation as a safe place for resource investment….  “

November 22, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | media, politics, South Australia