Youtube – Success in Jeffrrey Lee’s long fight to save Koongarra from uranium mining
A win for Kakadu http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac_6hapxMlo
Cat Beaton 18 March 13 Last week the Koongarra bill passed the senate – this is the final legislative process to ensure lands at Koongarra is protected permanently from uranium mining. Djok senior Traditional Owner Jeffrey Lee has advocated for over a decade that no uranium mining proceed and his country be incorporated to Kakadu.
Check out the recent clip about Jeffrey Lee’s success – his long fight for Koongarra to be protected from uranium mining and incorporated into Kakadu National park:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ac_6hapxMlo
and please join people around the world in sending Jeffrey Lee a message online at: ecnt.org/awinforkakadu
BBC Audio: Australia’s mining boom and Aboriginal lands
Australia’s mining boom and Aboriginal landsDuration: 10 minutes | First broadcast: Thursday 07 March 2013 | BBC website
BBC From Our Own Correspondent – March 2013 (MP3 file here)Pascale Harter introduces a special edition of From Our Own Correspondentdedicated to Australia’s mining boom and its implications for Aboriginal lands.
Nick Trevithick travels to Western Australia, and to the mining heartland that is fuelling the country’s economic boom. He asks whether it’s possible to put a monetary value on these ancient Aboriginal lands, as they are increasingly being taken over by mining companies.
The minerals beneath the surface can be bought and sold in global markets – but what about the memories, of the colonial era, the prehistoric past and the mythical dreamtime, which also lie embedded in this earth?
“The question of aboriginal land rights and heritage is a canker in the heart of modern Australia. You can diminish Aboriginal numbers statistically to two percent of the total population but in the rural North West … they’re more like thirty percent. Before the mining boom this burning vastness was their last line of retreat. But now they’ve been thrust into the frontline of global economics and the land is being stolen from beneath their feet, yet again…”
Indigenous tribe takes legal action against uranium mining in Grand Canyon
Havasupai Tribe, Conservation Groups Challenge Uranium Mine Threatening Grand Canyon by Earth First newswire, the Center for Biological Diversity 17 Mar 13 The “Canyon” uranium mine, seen here in the foreground, with Grand Canyon National Park six miles to its north. Photo by Bruce Gordon, Ecoflight.
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK— The Havasupai tribe and three conservation groups today sued the U.S. Forest Service over its decision to allow Energy Fuels Resources, Inc. to begin operating a uranium mine near Grand Canyon National Park without initiating or completing formal tribal consultations and without updating an outdated 1986 federal environmental review.
The Canyon Mine threatens cultural values, wildlife and endangered species and increases the risk of soil pollution and pollution and depletion of groundwater feeding springs and wells in and near Grand Canyon. The lawsuit alleges violations of environmental, mining, public land and historic preservation laws. Continue reading
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