Australia’s disgraces – uranium mining in Kakadu, – now uranium sales to Middle East!
The Murdoch press, and all the business pages are jubilant : – Australian uranium to be sold to the United Arab EmiratesAustralian Mining , 16 April 14 – “Australia’s uranium sector will receive a much needed boost with the United Arab Emirates signing a deal that will see it purchase yellow cake produced here. Trade Minister Andrew Robb met with UAE foreign minister Sheikh Abdullah in Abu Dhabi to sign …”
Has Australia no pride? No understanding of the consequences of its pathetic drive to resurrect the flagging uranium industry. Will Australia go to any country to try and make a few bucks ? We will sell uranium to India,- non signatory to the Nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty, to Russia, notorious for its poor monitoring of where uranium and its wastes go.
Now we’re supposed to rejoice that Australia might sell to United Arab Emirates – never mind if that triggers off a Middle East nuclear arms race.
At the same time, the Australian government and Australian generally seem oblivious to the mess that uranium mining has made in Kakadu. I mean – it’s only home to traditional Aborigines, an ecological paradise (or it was) a top Australian tourism attraction. Having messeed it up environmentally, and messed up financially too, ERA plans to start a new uranium minng venture there – even though they’re too broke to clean up the mess.
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