Close Ranger uranium mine, say Australian Greens
Australia’s Greens Want Uranium Mine Closed In Kakadu Park – FoxBusiness.com, By Enda Curran April 13, 2011| Dow Jones Newswires SYDNEY – Australia’s Greens Party wants the Ranger uranium mine located in the country’s Kakadu National Park closed permanently, saying the mine poses a significant threat to the world heritage listed site.
The mine, located in the country’s Northern Territory and operated by Energy Resources of Australia Ltd (ERA.AU), has been closed since January as heavy rains threatened a spillage of toxins from a water storage facility. That closure had been extended until late July.
Mining operations at the Ranger open pit mine are already scheduled to cease by the end of 2012, but the Greens want than plan sped up and for the company to drop its intention for acid leach processing.
“ERA should abandon this plan and close the mine,” Senator Scott Ludlam, Greens nuclear energy spokesman said in a statement….Australia’s Greens Want Uranium Mine Closed In Kakadu Park – FoxBusiness.com
Use half carbon tax money to fund renewable energy infrastructure
Decarbonising Australia requires large infrastructure like high-speed rail, smart grids, new transmission lines, electric vehicle recharge stations, and baseload solar power plants. Regardless of whether Australia gets a carbon price, public investment will still be needed to fund the infrastructure that is currently beyond the capacity of the private sector to deliver alone.
Securing climate credibility – The Drum Opinion (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), Leigh Ewbank, 15 April 11, In a speech to the National Press Club yesterday, Climate Minister Greg Combet announced that the government would devote half of the carbon tax revenue for compensating households………………Politics aside, the question now remains – what should they do with the remainder of the revenue? Continue reading
Victoria’s community wind farm launched
Hepburn Wind co-operative members will share in the proceeds of the sale of electricity and a portion of profits will be returned to the local area via a community sustainability fund. Through the fund, Hepburn Wind plans to provide more than $1 million for sustainability initiatives in the local community over the next 25 years.
Wind Farm erected , Eco Generation, 13 April 2011 Both turbines have now been erected at Australia’s first community-owned renewable energy project at Leonards Hill, 10 km south of Daylesford, Victoria. Continue reading
Australia-China renewable energy company
the new company would be viable in the absence of a carbon price, but that a clear carbon signal would provide the long-term certainty to promote investment in clean energy.
Australia’s CBD Energy and Chinese companies soon to form AUD6bn renewable JV | Industrial Fuels and Power April 14th, 2011 Australia’s CBD Energy together with China Datang Renewable Power Co and Tianwei Baobian Electric Co are looking to form a joint venture called AusChina Energy Development. Continue reading
Big drop in value of uranium companies
Uranium Producers in Takeover Play as Assets Exceed Share Price:U3O8, April 14, 2011 — Uranium companies from Toro Energy Ltd. (TOE) to Mega Uranium Ltd. (MGA) are so depreciated they’re trading at less than their assets would be worth in a fire sale. …..Toro, which is seeking to develop the Wiluna deposit in Western Australia, fell to 0.88 times the value of its assets minus liabilities from 1.09 times during the same span, the data show….
Toro is awaiting regulatory approval for its $278 million Wiluna uranium mine.
‘Big Drop’ “We’ve had a big drop because we’re in the development doldrums and people know we’ll need to raise money for Wiluna’s development in 2012,” Chief Executive Officer Greg Hall said in an interview.
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
Nuclear company AREVA opens solar project in Australia
The Kogan Creek Solar Booster project gave Prime Minister Julia Gillard a wonderful new photo opportunity…the largest project of its type in the world, and the first commercial-scale operation for Areva Solar,….The technology, conceived by Dr David Mills at Sydney University
Areva’s sunshine test Business Spectator CLIMATE SPECTATOR Giles Parkinson, 14 Apr 2011 It’s been just over a year since French nuclear giant Areva bought out the aspiring solar thermal energy developer Ausra, but the purchase of the Californian-based company with the Australian-grown technology may be about to pay dividends. Continue reading
Productivity Commission condemns desalination plants
The 600-page report is highly critical of decisions by state governments across the country to overinvest in expensive and inefficient desalination plants, with economic modelling indicating desalination plants in Melbourne and Perth alone could cost consumers between $3.1 billion and $4.2bn more than cheaper water-saving measures over 20 years.
Commission slams desal plants * Lauren Wilson * The Australian * April 14, 2011 PROLONGED water restrictions and expensive desalination plants are the least efficient way of providing water security, the government’s key economic advisory body has found. Continue reading
Australians massaged back into nuclear complacency
Nuclear Fall-Out – A Window Into The Rabbit-Hole, Media With Conscience By Allen L. Jasson 13 April “…..the tranquillity I am witnessing here in Australia derives from the way the Nuclear Disaster is subtly presented as a kind of natural extension of the earth quake and tsunami; a terrible, unfortunate but inescapable fact of life. Continue reading
Atomic bomb tests’ radiation kept secret from Australians
British monitoring of water commenced in the 1950s. The records of this early monitoring are unavailable in Australia. As British nuclear weapons testing in Australia commenced in the early l950s, this data is of great importance.
Propaganda Paul Langley’s Nuclear History Blog 13 April 11, Introduction From 1957 to 1978 the Australian Government carried out dissections on the bodies of people who had died of illness or accident. These dissections were carried out to monitor the amount of Strontium 90, a radioactive element, absorbed by Australians. Strontium 90 was a component of the fallout deposited from nuclear tests conducted in Australia, the Pacific and China. Continue reading
Whittlesea (Victoria) may strengthen its nuclear free status
free of a nuclear power plant, uranium enrichment or reprocessing plants;Is not used as a base for nuclear weapons or any facilities associated with their development, manufacture or transportation;
Nuclear fallout – Whittlesea Leader, 12 April 11, A TOXIC debate exploded at a Whittlesea Council meeting during a discussion about the municipality reaffirming its position as a nuclear-free zone. Continue reading
Joint solar and wind energy venture – Australia and China
China joins $6.2bn Australia wind and solar roll-out Recharge 13 April 11–Australia’s CBD Energy plans to invest A$6bn ($6.26bn) in wind and solar farms across the country in a joint venture with two of China’s biggest renewables companies.
China joins $6.2bn Australia wind and solar roll-out – Finance – Renewable energy news – Recharge – wind, solar, biomass, wave/tidal/hydro and geothermal
Australian uranium shares down, but ERA worst hit
Uranium miner’s shares slump on forecast loss ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) By finance reporter Alicia Barry 13 April 11, Shares in uranium miner Energy Resources of Australia have slumped more than 10 per cent after the company flagged a first-half loss.Speaking at ERA’s annual general meeting, its CEO Rob Atkinson said 2010 was an extremely difficult year after heavy rains suspended production at its Ranger mine in the Northern Territory…..
Uranium mining leads the plunge in Australian resources shares
Uranium miners were among the weakest in the S&P/ASX 200, with Paladin down 4.9 per cent to $3.53…..”There’s no reason to be buying risk assets when you’re told the third-biggest economy in the world has a nuclear crisis potentially as big as Chernobyl.
Nuclear danger poisons bourse: Japan crisis wipes month’s worth of share gains The Australian David Rogers * From: Dow Jones Newswires * April 13, 2011 AUSTRALIA’S sharemarket had its biggest one-day fall in a month yesterday, as Japan’s nuclear crisis worsened, commodity prices fell and BHP Billiton shares reversed after Monday’s buyback-led surge…… 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
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