Antinuclear

Stop the Bull – No to Toro uranium mining on a lake bed that floods!

Scott Ludlam, 4 April 13, The Environment Minister Tony Burke approved WA’s first uranium mine, proving once and for all that the Labor Party can’t be trusted to protect the environment, and that they are in fact just as bad as the Liberals.

Toro Energy Ltd was given the green light for a uranium mine on a lake bed that floods, despite having no experience in uranium mining and not enough cash to open and run the mine properly.

The project has been approved before major issues like extinction of species, protecting water resources, defining a transport route or isolating radioactive tailings from the environment properly have been resolved.

Instead they have been postponed to an Environmental Management Plan that will be negotiated in secret and only made public after the Minister has approved it. Toro gets to decide what will be measured and monitored, the location, frequency and timing of monitoring, the baseline studies that will be done, and the trigger levels for radiation exposure, surface and ground water.

Please write to Toro today, and let them know that you will be working to oppose their project. You might like to ask them how they plan to raise finance for the mine and look after the carcinogenic waste for several thousand years?

The Greens are with you on this, and we’re not giving up without a fight.

April 4, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized