Famous Kakadu National Park in peril from radiation
For 30 years about 100,000 litres of contaminated water a day has been leaking from the tailings dam into fissures beneath Kakadu
Radioactive water threatens Kakadu, The Age, Lindsay Murdoch, April 16, 2011 Radioactive water is in danger of spilling into an Aboriginal community and Kakadu’s World Heritage-listed wetlands if record rainfalls continue to deluge the vast Ranger uranium mine. Continue reading
Rio Tinto chief avoids discussion of Jabiluka uranium mine
ERA chief executive Rob Atkinson told The Australian that ERA did not want Jabiluka –.. to become part of Kakadu…If Rio approaches the Mirarr people about development and gets knocked back, it is unable to make another approach for four years…
Du Plessis sidesteps questions on Jabiluka uranium * Matt Chambers The Australian * April 16, 2011 RIO Tinto chairman Jan du Plessis has sidestepped questions over the future of the Jabiluka uranium mine in the Northern Territory, with the traditional owners of the area wanting it merged into Kakadu National Park so it cannot be mined. Continue reading
Uranium mining has done damage enough to Mirrar Aboriginal people
“Uranium mining has also taken our country away from us and destroyed it – billabongs and creeks gone for ever. There are hills of poisonous rock and great holes in the ground with poisonous mud.”
Aborigines to block uranium mining after Japan disaster, The Independent, By Kathy Marks, 14 April 2011 “………..Uranium mining has a troubled history in the area. The Ranger deposit – now operated by Energy Resources of Australia (ERA), a subsidiary of the Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto – was developed against the Mirarr’s wishes. Continue reading
Energy Resources of Australia facing grim financial report on uranium mining drop
Reports gauge damaging La Nina summer rain’s cost | The Australian, Matt Chambers, April 11, 2011″…..ERA, which reports tomorrow, has the biggest potential to give the market a negative shock, as far as Rio’s results go. UBS is expecting a 55 per cent drop in uranium production from the previous quarter to 525 tonnes….”Reports gauge damaging La Nina summer rain’s cost | The Australian
Darwin hears Aboriginals, scientists, call to close Ranger uranium mine
Monash University engineering academic Dr Gavin Mudd said that Ranger was one of the most heavily monitored uranium mines in the world, but this was still insufficient to deal with the problems.
The Ranger mine has been closed for several weeks because the extreme wet season has threatened to overflow a dam site used to hold radioactive tailings.
‘Call to close Ranger uranium mine’ | Green Left Weekly April 10, 2011 By Peter Robson, Darwin One hundred and thirty people packed out a room in the Crowne Plaza hotel to hear traditional owners and nuclear experts call for the closure of the Ranger uranium mine in the world heritage-listed Kakadu national park.
Radioactive water risk keeps Ranger uranium mine closed
a threat of contaminated water leaking from Ranger into nearby waterways could keep the mine closed for the rest of this year….there’s no way the company will be able to safely treat the contaminated water stored at Ranger by the time the mining lease expires in 10 years….
AUDIO AM – Traditional Aboriginal land owners pressure uranium miner to shut up shop 08/04/2011 ABC Radio National. 08/04/2011 TONY EASTLEY: The Australian company that produces 10 per cent of the world’s uranium is under increasing pressure by Aboriginal 
traditional owners to shut up shop.The Mirarr people own the section of the world heritage listed Kakadu National Park that includes the Ranger uranium mine operated by Energy Resources of Australia. Continue reading
Courageous Aboriginal owners value their land above money
In a letter to the United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, this week, Ms Margarula said it was “with great sadness” the Mirarr people learnt of the suffering of the Japanese people following the earthquake and tsunami.
Ms Margarula told Mr Ban her people had been blocked from opposing the export of uranium from their land to Japan…..
Jeffery Lee, the sole member of the Djok clan, offered Koongarra to the 
government, shunning the chance to become a billionaire, saying he is happy to work as a ranger protecting the land….
Forget the billions, return Jabiluka site to Kakadu, say traditional owners, Sydney Morning Herald, Lindsay Murdoch Jabiru April 7, 2011 ABORIGINAL traditional owners have declared they want the multibillion-dollar Jabiluka uranium deposit to remain undeveloped and be incorporated into Kakadu National Park. Continue reading
Radioactive danger to Australia of Indonesian nuclear plants
impacts on northern Australia of even a small release could potentially be devastating to agricultural production and tourism.”
VIDEO Top End warning over nuclear reactor fallout | News | NT News | Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia | ntnews.com.au NT News | Darwin, 5 April 11, THE Top End is in danger of being devastated by a nuclear fallout cloud should Indonesian reactors melt down, computer modelling shows.The Australian National University’s Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies working paper shows there is “substantial risk” for the whole of northern Australia – particularly during the monsoon months. Continue reading
Australia’s seizure of Aboriginal land for uranium mining
……..mining has a lot to do with the Northern Territory Intervention. Australia has 23% of the world’s known uranium deposits……Since the Intervention, the Territory’s government has allocated AU$14.4 million to expanding its mining industry....
…communities have been offered homes in exchange for 40 year leases. Thus, the Intervention, has wrested indigenous land from its owners by force and bribed indigenous communities to barter their rights for basic amenities…
the seizures of their land, the bribes to get them to hand over control of more land, and the attempts to shift them from outstations are not about protecting children or building new homes. They are about getting access to mineral wealth and sweeping indigenous people out of the way in order to do so..
Aboriginal Peoples Lose Rights and Mineral Rich Land in Northern Territory Intervention. The Women’s International Perspective , Sarah Irving, 1 April 11, “……..indigenous voices heard in Our Generation, an important new film documenting the impact of the ‘Northern Territory Emergency Response.’ Continue reading
Fukushima, not the NT govt, is killing the uranium industry
The uranium mining industry is out of step with public opinion, and with the realities of the collapsing uranium market.
The Northern Territory is the heart of Australia’s tourist industry. The last thing it needs is to have a dirty, uneconomic market flop of a uranium mine – damaging its natural environment, and killing the tourist industry.
It’s not the Northern Territory govt that is stopping investment in uranium mining – it’s the unfolding Fukushima nuclear disaster. – Christina Macpherson
Uranium mine resistance ‘sends bad message’ ABC The Minerals Council of Australia says the Northern Territory Government’s decision to oppose a mine near Alice Springs will deter the industry from investing……. “It send a very bad message to the industry and paints the NT in a very poor light.”…
Uranium mine resistance ‘sends bad message’ – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Antinuclear cry from the heart of Australia’s heartland
As for the business of the Australian Federal Government paying off an indigenous group to dump radioactive material on their land (Muckaty Station near Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory)…it’s such an appallingly low act…If nothing else, read your insurance policies. Do they specifically rule out claims against personal or property damage that is nuclear-accident related? Why?No insurance company or underwriters will touch it with a mile-long pole, because the potential cost of a nuclear disaster is unimaginably high….
Nuclear power stations and nuclear waste dumps in outback Australia, Fiona Lake Australian Photographs, 24 march 11, Where should nuclear power stations and nuclear waste dumps be located, in Australia? In the heart of our largest city, Sydney. Oh but what if there is an accident? Well if there is any, any, chance of an accident – then we must not have a nuclear power station or nuclear waste dump in Australia at all. Continue reading
Nuclear power “clean, inexpensive” says Northern Territory News
Any move from nuclear power …..would harm the NT’s uranium mining industry
Nuclear still power option NT News 18 March 11 Hopefully, there will not be a loss of faith in nuclear energy following the Japanese disaster. It is a clean, inexpensive form of power Continue reading
Uranium deception and confusion of Northern Territory politician
“It details 4th generation reactors that essentially don’t require more uranium mining…in forwarding that article around he’s essentially shooting the argument in the foot because he’s advocating for uranium mining on one front when [4th generation reactors] use radioactive waste.”..
Conlan in hot seat – ABC Alice Springs – Australian Broadcasting Corporation11 March, 2011 By Emma Sleath Country Liberals politician Matt Conlan is in damage control following an NT News article alleging he was secretly in support of the proposed Angela Pamela uranium mine despite publicly opposing it. Continue reading
Angela Pamela uranium mine, and Northern Territory’s two- faced politician
Mr Conlan came out against the opening of the Pamela-Angela uranium mine in Central Australia a few days before the Araluen byelection in Alice Springs last year… [but he also devised] a “great way to outmuscle” mine opponents, such as the “comrades” from the Greens and Arid Lands Environment Centre.
Matt’s email con job, NT News NIGEL ADLAM | March 11th, 2011 A CLP politician who publicly opposed the opening of a uranium mine in the Territory privately agreed to help the mining company. Continue reading
Community opposition to Angela Pamela uranium mine, hypocrisy of politicians
The desperate tone of the emails simply proves the effectiveness of the concerted community opposition to the dirty, dangerous uranium mine at Angela Pamela…..The Arid Lands Environment Centre, the Environment Centre NT and Families for a Nuclear Free Future continue to call for the Angela Pamela site to be permanently protected from uranium mining by declaring the area reserved land under s112 of the Minerals Titles Act.
Conlan/Cameco collusion proves power of community opposition The Arid Lands Environment Centre is not surprised by the conspiratorial content of the leaked email’s between the CLP’s Matt Conlan and Cameco’s Stephan Stander. Continue reading
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