Mike Rann – Premier for the Uranium Lobby
No unconditional support on tax –
Rann | Adelaide Now, Christopher Russell, June 16, 2010 Mr Rann formally opened the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy’s uranium conference 2010, being held this week at the Adelaide Convention Centre…….
AusIMM president Greg Chalmers said ……..”Uranium should have demonstrated green credentials and cost benefits if we can get over emotions versus logic.…….”
Uranium project stalled idefinitely by community opposition
A conglomeration of NGOs, civil society organizations including the powerful Khasi Students Union (KSU) is leading the agitations to prevent UCIL from starting the site activities. Opposition to uranium mining
(India) KPM Uranium Mining in Meghalaya: A Controversial Project | PRAGOTI, 15 June 2010, Problems in Meghalaya KPM project in Meghalaya has been mired in controversy right since its inception forcing the UCIL to stall its activities Continue reading
Video on Nuclear waste Dump for Australian Aboriginal Land
VIDEO Australia nuclear waste dump row – Asia-Pacific – Al Jazeera English Asia-Pacific – Al Jazeera 17 June 2010, Australia’s government is pushing its plans for a nuclear waste dump in a remote part of the country’s Northern Territory.It has signed an agreement with the traditional owners of the land who will receive $10m in compensation, most of it in cash.But the proposed nuclear dump has divided local people while and environmentalists warn it could one day be used to store waste from overseas.Al Jazeera’s Azhar Sukri reports.
Labor’s sorry record on uranium mining and Aboriginal rights
Ark Tribe faces the bosses’ court – time for unions to get back on the front foot, Socialist Alliance Unionists, 17 June 2010, “…..Indigenous rights? The racist and humiliating Northern Territory Intervention. Uranium mining? Looming open slather for mining bosses. So why support the ALP? Continue reading
World’s rarest seal threatened by depleted uranium
to protect marine mammals and other marine life from the …… highly toxic materials like depleted uranium that have been deposited by the military. Archipelagos has created the only independent, non-profit laboratory in Greece,
Saving the world’s rarest seal from uranium, guardian Uk, 17 June 2010, Dr Anastasia Miliou was interviewed by Georgina Kenyon. Continue reading
Arkaroola uranium mining threatens rare frog species
Mining worries as frog species found – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), 16 June 2010, The owner of Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary says discovery of a new frog species is yet another reason to be wary of mining in the Flinders Ranges region of outback South Australia.Scientists say it is the first new species to be identified in SA in 45 years.The species was found this month at Arkaroola, where Marathon Resources is involved in a uranium exploration project at Mount Gee.Sanctuary owner Marg Sprigg says she is worried Marathon’s initial drilling program could lead to it getting a full drilling licence later in the year.”I’m a geologist, I’m not against mining but I don’t think you have to mine everywhere and there were a lot of geologists who put in submissions saying ‘leave Arkaroola alone, it is too special, it’s a brilliant geological teaching laboratory’.”Ms Sprigg says mining could prevent more unique species being found in the Flinders Ranges.
Mining worries as frog species found – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Bleak future for uranium, but not because of resources tax
The mining lobby, and their media servants revel in attacking the Australian government over the proposed super profit resources tax. They blame theis for a poor outlook for for example, the expanded Olympic Dam uranium mine.
But the truth of the poor uranium outlook is otherwise.
Tax gains from bad apples: reduce your tax bill | The Australian, 16 June 2010, Guadagnuolo sees little prospect of a sustained recovery for uranium miner Energy Resources Australia ………”Further, we think the market has overestimated the scarcity of uranium, while advances in reactor technology will limit demand as reprocessing becomes increasingly effective, with the added benefit of limiting the proliferation of nuclear materials,” he says…..PRIME CANDIDATE FOR TAX LOSS SELLING……Energy Resources of Australia (ERA): Down 43 per cent since June 30.
U.S. company Halliburton sells nuclear technology to Iran
Halliburton Sells Nuclear Tech to Iran The Sly OysterJames Furbush on June 15, 2010 by · Interesting. Seems like Halliburton has found a way to profit from every conceivable scenario. Can’t even fault them, really, savvy business practices. It’s just unfortunate they’re able to take advantage of the system set up.
So, Halliburton creates offshore entities to circumvent the U.S. ban on doing business in Iran, and part of what passes through this truly ridiculous loophole is nuclear enabling technology. All of the profit ends up in a Cayman Islands shell company so there’s no U.S. tax burden, and when we have to go interdict anuclear armed Iran Halliburton gets paid again supporting our military in the conflict. Halliburton Sells Nuclear Tech to Iran
Australia’s trade sanctions against Iran
Australia is pretty good at posturing as a leader in nuclear weapons non-proliferation. Trouble is, Australia is also a leader in selling nuclear fuel to several nuclear weapons countries.
Australia unveils unilateral Iran sanctions , PRESSTV, 15 Jun 2010 Less than a week after the UN Security Council imposed a fourth round of sanctions against Iran, Australia says it is planning unilateral punitive measures. Continue reading
China’s secrecy over nuclear radiation leak
China nuke leak ‘kept secret’ The Australianm AFP June 16, 2010 HONG KONG: A nuclear plant in China’s southern Guangdong province has recorded a small leak, the Hong Kong government said yesterday, after the incident was exposed by a US-based radio station….. Continue reading
Uranium mining guzzles Australia’s precious groundwater
water from the Great Artesian Basin in Central Australia is being depleted to keep residual radioactive dust from uranium mining wet in order to keep it from blowing across the continent. Seven million gallons of water is being extracted from the basin per day to keep the radioactive dust in place
Unhappy Anniversary for the Atomic Bomb, Streetvibes Newspaper , June 15, 2010 Anti-nuclear activists want it to retire By Jeremy Flannery ” …..Riley is traveling across the United States with a fellow member of Think Outside the Bomb and two Australian members of Footprints for Peace to campaign for the end of nuclear energy. Continue reading
Depleted uranium affecting nervous systems of children in India
when heavy metals are coupled with uranium, the toxic effect increases manifold,” said Dr Amar Singh Azad, a paediatrician working on neurological disorders in children
Parts of Malwa, Raj drinking poison? Chandigarh – City – The Times of India P Singh, , Jun 16, 2010, “… While high concentration of uranium is attributed to use of depleted uranium in the Afghan war by US, the problem appears to be due to no stooping of release of effluents in water channels, something which the government machinery has failed to check. Continue reading
W.A. way behind in clean energy, despite its renewable resources
Perth comes last for sustainability, ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), 15 June 2010, Perth has been ranked the least sustainable city in an assessment of the carbon footprint of Australia’s 20 largest cities….. Continue reading
Share prices suffer as S.A. uranium companies wrangle
Quasar Resources challenges Alliance in court over Four Mile uranium project, Adelaide Now SARAH MARTIN
- June 15, 2010 QUASAR Resources is accusing junior joint venture partner Alliance Resources of frustrating development of the Four Mile uranium mine in SA’s north. Continue reading
Colourful protestors climb on nuclear plant
Renewable energy protesters say no to nuclear in Sweden | Greenpeace International
Swedish police arrest 50 activists after Greenpeace protest at nuclear plant, Google hosted news, By Malin Rising (CP) –15 June 2010, STOCKHOLM — Swedish police on Monday arrested some 50 Greenpeace activists after they broke into a nuclear power plant site to protest the country’s use of atomic energy, officials said. Continue reading
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