Uranium – bad news for Kimberley workers and environment
Uranium in the Kimberley
ABC radio Kimberley Mornings 01/09/2009 Development proposals for the Kimberley have been all about the Ord or the gas in the last year or so, but is uranium on the radar?
Robin Chapple, Greens MLC for the Pastoral and Mining Region thinks it is, and is giving a talk in Broome tonight.
“At a conservative estimate, there are 15 corporations currently operating in the Kimberley actively pursuing uranium and there are over 60 exploration lease, dotted all over the Kimberley. History shows us that anywhere else in the world where there has been uranium mining, we have health effects in workers and in the communities.”
Robin Chapple argues that the environmental legacy left by uranium mining is equally disturbing, with tailings dams and waste piles “which are radioactive for ten thousand odd years, and that’s not managed”.
Rudd govt uranium policy for miners, against environment
NT uranium royalty laws a king hit for environment
Dave Sweeney 10 Sept 09 New uranium mining laws passed by Federal Parliament yesterday put the interests of uranium mining companies ahead of the environment, Indigenous landowners and Australian taxpayers, the Australian Conservation Foundation said.
“The Uranium Royalty (Northern Territory) Act is biased towards Continue reading
Olympic Dam uranium mine: future uncertain
BHP’s dam dilemma: costs rise
The Age BARRY FITZGERALD September 9, 2009
BHP Billiton’s proposed expansion of the Olympic Dam copper/uranium/gold mine in South Australia’s outback is set to become the most expensive ever, with analysts estimating an all up cost of $US15-$US20 billion ($17.4-$23.2 billion)…… Continue reading
Australian a uranium colony of China?
Australian uranium firm wants Chinese takeover
ABC News By Louisa Rebget
An Australian-based uranium explorer says its proposed takeover by a Chinese company would open Australia up to the growing Chinese nuclear power market. Continue reading
China seeking strategic control of Australia’s uranium
Uranium follows rare earths as China eyes strategic control
Robin Bromby | September 08, 2009Article from: The AustralianFIRST rare earths, now uranium. It seems the Chinese are determined to get control of key strategic metals – and Australia seems to be welcoming the idea.
Chinese companies have effectively moved to take control of the two most advanced rare earths projects here (although one is still subject to approval by the Foreign Investment Review Board).
And, as we saw this morning, uranium is also high on Beijing’s shopping list. It is proposed that China Guangdong Nuclear Power (CGNP) will acquire 70 per cent of Energy Metals (EME) which has the Bigrlyi uranium project in the Northern Territory, where there is already a JORC-compliant economic uranium resource (as well as vanadium). This is almost certain to succeed because Jindalee Resources (JRL) owns 40 per cent of EME and has agreed to the deal…………………..
it’s still cheap as chips for what could be Australia’s next uranium mine to be developed. CGNP has four operating nuclear power stations and what better for it than to control its own mines, rather than have to be at the mercy of the open market?
Uranium follows rare earths as China eyes strategic control | The Australian
Uranium for China, disadvantage for aborigines
Christina Macpherson 9 Sept 09
Today’s news mix shows where the Rudd government’s priorities lie, and where they get their policy from.
I guess that the uranium mining companies designed the new uranium royalties bill. After all, everybody knows that the commercial nuclear power industry is in terminal illness. Also the uranium industry could collapse almost instantly, in the event of a nuclear accident. Therefore, let’s rip off the aborigines now, while the going’s good, and too bad, if the industry all goes sour for them later.
Only in nuclear weapons dictatorships like China is the nuclear industry more secure. As government and Ziggy Switkowski delight in China’s uranium appetite, the uranium salesmen conveniently ignore China’s nuclear weapons buildup.
And with the help of the mainstream media, the Australian public sleeps on – “She’ll be right, mate”. But will she?
Rudd Uranium Bill suits miners, disadvantages aborigines
Rudd Uranium Bill will increase Aboriginal disadvantage
The Greens Scott LudlamTuesday 8th September 2009A Federal Bill that will apply a uniform royalty regime to all uranium mining projects in the Northern Territory will increase Aboriginal disadvantage, the Australian Greens say. Continue reading
Ziggy Switkowski backs China’s push for control of Australian uranium
China makes power play for uranium
The Age BARRY FITZGERALD AND MATHEW MURP 9 Sept 09A BEIJING directive to its mushrooming nuclear power industry to step up the acquisition of strategic uranium supplies has led to an agreed $85 million takeover bid for Energy Metals, the main partner in the Northern Territory Bigrlyi uranium deposit. Continue reading
Review: nuke news of the past week
By Christina Macpherson
Australia: ERA hypes up its image, by flying a Melbourne Age reporter to the Ranger uranium mine, to report on Rio Tinto’s drive to employ aboriginal uranium miners.
International: US residents near nuclear plants to get anti-radiation pills. France’s nuclear company AREVA in dire financial straits due to troubles of its ‘new generation’ reactors in Finland and France. America and China to push for nuclear to be part of Copenhagen climate program
Marathon uranium exploration waste dump was radioactive
Waste, not bags, the problem: Greens
ABC News 8 Sept 09
Greens MP Mark Parnell has challenged a claim by Marathon Resources that waste it dumped illegally at Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary was not radioactive……. Continue reading
Ionising radiation a risk in cancer screens
Cancer fear over early screens
The Australian Sean Parnell | September 08, 2009
MEDIA coverage of the cancer diagnoses of celebrities Belinda Emmett and Kylie Minogue convinced more younger women to have a mammogram but experts are recommending against its use as a screening tool. Continue reading
Protest against Marathon uranium explorer, but will South Aust govt listen?
Marathon fight over what lies beneath the Flinders Ranges
THE AUSTRALIAN Pia Akerman and Michael Owen | September 07, 2009
“………………..The anti-Marathon lobby is made up of an array of strange bedfellows including greenies, scientists, tourists and politicians – most notably federal Liberal heavyweight Nick Minchin, who, as resources minister, approved the nearby Beverley uranium mine. Continue reading
All aboriginal land in Australia really controlled by whites
UN SUBMISSION- ABORIGINAL PEOPLE BECOMING REFUGEES IN THEIR OWN LAND
by Michael Anderson, leader of the Euahlayi Nation of northwest NSW and southwest Queensland and elected spokesman of the 16 tribes in the Gumilaroi nation August 17, 2009 Continue reading
Staggering size of environmental problems for BHPB’s uranium mine expansion
Mega-everything: the world’s biggest open cut mine
OnLine opinion By Sandra Kanck – 24 August 2009
The expansion of the Olympic Dam mine at Roxby Downs will see environment as the biggest loser. The draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), for which public comment closed early in August 2009, has serious deficiencies. Continue reading
Uranium sales to China ramped up as China’s nuke weapons ramp up
China prepares to show off nuclear missiles- South Australia and China move forward together
China will parade five new missiles in a show of military prowess on the 60th anniversary of Communist Party rule. Continue reading
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