Prices down and extreme weather affected uranium mine
Uranium output to fall 18 per cent: ERA | The Australian, 14 July 2010, ENERGY Resources of Australia (ERA) has flagged a drop in uranium oxide production of up to 18 per cent a year after its first-half output slumped, due largely to record rainfall affecting operations. Shares in ERA closed 68¢, or 4.62 per cent, lower at $14.05. Continue reading
Australia’s nuclear lobby needs a carbon price – how embarassing!
John Howard asked Ziggy Switkowski in 2006 to look at nuclear power, and Switkowski told him it couldn’t happen without a carbon price. So, no nuclear power without a “great big new tax”………
No carbon price? You’re being conned | Crikey, 12 July, by Bernard Keane “……..The Coalition is dead keen on nuclear but won’t ever move without Labor giving them cover. But as Crikey showed in November last year, nuclear power is ludicrously expensive and needs massive taxpayer support, otherwise it costs a lot more to build and more to operate than renewables. And that’s before you figure out where to park the waste for a few hundreds of thousands of years or decommission reactors. Continue reading
In the crooked world of uranium mining deals
Alliance contends that Quasar “engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct” in contravention of Australian trading laws and that Heathgate “assisted or participated in the contraventions committed by Quasar.”……
Alliance takes Four Mile partner to court, World Nuclear News, 12 July 2010 Australia’s Alliance Resources has taken Quasar Resources and Heathgate Resources to court over their failure to disclose information related to the exploration of the Four Mile uranium project in South Australia. Continue reading
Energy from solar getting cheaper than from nuclear
proposed new nuclear plants would generate power at a cost of 14 to 18 cents per kilowatt-hour. But commercial-scale solar developers are already offering utilities electricity at 14 cents or less per kWh.
(USA) Solar power now cheaper than nuclear in North Carolina FACING SOUTH 12 July 2010, While the price of solar photovoltaic systems has been falling for decades, the cost of new nuclear plants has been climbing — and a historic crossover point has been reached in North Carolina, where solar power is now cheaper than nuclear. Continue reading
Costs and low uranium prices put Olympic Dam expansion at risk
BHP’s Olympic Dam expansion under pressure, Business Spectator 12 Jul 2010 BHP Billiton Ltd’s $US20 billion Olympic Dam expansion in Australia may be delayed by a protracted environmental assessment and cost, the Australian Financial Review reports. The recent softening prices for Olympic Dam’s key minerals, especially uranium, and a significant increase in the required capital is also understood to be weighing on BHP, the paper said. Continue reading
Students protest uranium mining companies beyond the law
“The Australian public think we live in a democracy but when it comes to particularly uranium mines, they not applicable. They are exempt,……
Protesters slime offices on the “Nuclear scumbags tour of Adelaide” | Reportage 9 July 2010, Hundreds of students have protested outside the offices of the big players from Australia’s uranium industry.The ‘Nuclear Scumbags tour’ day of action was part of the Students of Sustainability (SOS) conference being hosted by Flinders University in Adelaide on Wednesday. Continue reading
Encouraging advice for Australian Govt and Nuclear Industry
Having Troubles with your local Aborigines? 20 Ways to Commit Publicly Acceptable Genocide
“……13, When Aboriginal people protest mining and development on their own land, tell them they don’t understand what’s good for them. Tell them that they should be grateful for radioactive pollution because it comes with a cheque from the mining company. Make sure the government doesn’t provide any services to areas with high Aboriginal populations. Allow the mining companies to promise a service infrastructure well below the national standard. Tell the Aborigines that without the mining company they will have nothing. Don’t be bothered if the mining company fails all promises. Set up an extra government department to look at Aboriginal services. Uset his money to subsidise another government department. Use the leftovers to subsidise the obligations of the mining company. Announce an increase in government funding on the needs of Aboriginal people, as though housing is a special need of Aborigines. Thank the mining company for caring for the community and contributing to the economy….” Adapted by Emma Heughan and Matt Fagan from an untitled article obtained from the internet dealing with the genocide of Native Americans.
24 years of radiation testing on British sheep
Before farmers in restricted areas can sell or move any of their livestock, they must have each animal tested…….
Scottish sheep farms finally free of Chernobyl fallout – Science, News – The Independent. By Kevin Rawlinson and Rachel Hovenden, 7 July 2010 Continue reading
South Australia’s Honeymoon uranium mine to be taken over by Russian govt
Uranium One’s Honeymoon Well uranium project in South Australia will move into Russian government hands.
Uranium One to ARMZ? | Industrial Fuels and Power, 9 July 2010, Uranium One, the second largest uranium company in Canada, is reportedly being taken over by ARMZ, a division of the Russian state nuclear company Rosatom. Continue reading
Changes to Australia’s Law planned, to further uranium mining
sends a further public message about the likelihood of uranium mining being an increasing part of the mining landscape in Australia.
Changes to Commonwealth environmental approvals for uranium mining Australia, Lexology -July 6 2010 In brief:
- The Federal Government released its response to Deloitte’s 2008 Review of Regulatory Efficiency in Uranium Mining in May 2010.
- The response indicates there may be major changes to the environmental regulation of uranium mining in Australia. These may facilitate the approvals process for uranium mining. Continue reading
India’s nuclear plans just a “plum market” for USA nuclear companies
In the event of a tragedy, tax payers will have to cough up the compensation while foreign companies will go scot free,” ….. foreign nuclear companies have seen their market dry up in the US, UK and France because no new plants have been set up there in 20-30 years, and therefore, India was a plum market. And it is with an eye on securing these companies’ interests that the US and other developed nations are insisting that India pass the Nuclear Civil Liability Bill.
Public hearing nukes civil liability bill. Indian Express, 07 Jul 2010, HYDERABAD: Speakers at a public consultation on the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill 2010 held here today pilloried the Union government for learning nothing from the Bhopal gas tragedy. They described as a sellout the Bill’s provision to impose a ceiling on the compensation payable by foreign nuclear suppliers in the eventuality of a nuclear accident. Continue reading
Women cancer victims of nuclear industry
The Udall measure, S. 3224, also would set aside money for an epidemiological study of the health effects on families of uranium workers and residents of uranium-development communities.
(USA) Feds not handling women’s uranium claims, GJSentinel.com, By Gary Harmon, July 5, 2010 The clerks and secretaries who worked in the Atomic Energy Commission offices in Grand Junction during World War II and later during the Cold War handled ore samples and were frequently in and around milling products. Continue reading
German govt to raise 9 billion euro by taxing nuclear fuel
German MOF: Not Abolishing Plan To Impose Nuclear Fuel Rod Tax – WSJ.com, By Andrea Thomas, BERLIN (Dow Jones) 6 July 2010, –The German finance ministry Monday rejected a media report that it might scrap the proposed tax on nuclear fuel rods and raise money from an energy fund instead.”The finance ministry doesn’t disavow the nuclear fuel rods tax,” a finance ministry spokesman told Dow Jones Newswires…….
As part of its EUR80 billion austerity package, the German government has said it plans to impose a tax on fuel rods, with proceeds seen at some EUR9.2 billion over a four-year period.
Germany is in the process of gradually phasing out all of its remaining 17 nuclear reactors by around 2022,…….Germany’s nuclear power plants are operated by utilities E.ON AG (EOAN.XE), RWE AG (RWE.XE), EnBW Energie Baden-Wuerttemberg AG (EBK.XE) and Vattenfall Europe AG (VTT-XE).
German MOF: Not Abolishing Plan To Impose Nuclear Fuel Rod Tax – WSJ.com
Uranium Awareness from Experts, with Aboriginal Interpreters
Uranium awareness tour hits the road 5 July 2010, The Kimberley Uranium Awareness Community Forums kick off this week with meetings in Kununurra, Halls Creek, Billiluna, Fitzroy Crossing, Looma, Mowanjum, Derby and Broome.
The forums aim to inform Kimberley people about the risks of uranium mining and how this activity has affected Indigenous in other parts of Australia. Forum organisers have invited technical experts and Traditional Owners from the Northern Territory and South Australia to speak at the meetings. Continue reading
Sweden’s Anti Nuclear Protestors
Sweden fines activists for nuclear plant break-in, Google hosted news, The Associated Press:– 2 July 20201, STOCKHOLM — A Swedish court has ordered 29 Greenpeace activists to pay fines of up to 17,000 kronor ($2,200) each for breaking into the grounds of a nuclear energy plant.
The Uppsala District Court on Thursday convicted the demonstrators of trespassing for climbing a fence of the Forsmark power station in central Sweden last month.The Greenpeace activists included 13 Germans and eight Poles, as well as demonstrators from Britain, France and Nordic countries. The organization said they had been protesting Sweden’s plan to allow old reactors to be replaced with new ones.In 1980, Swedes voted to phase out the use of nuclear energy, but the current center-right coalition has overturned the decision. The Associated Press: Sweden fines activists for nuclear plant break-in
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