BHP- cutting staff, new Environmental Impact Statement on OLympic Dam uranium mine expansion
The decision is understood to affect about 150 staff…..BHP is preparing a supplementary environmental impact statement in response to public consultation on its draft EIS for the Olympic Dam expansion.
BHP to move white-collar jobs interstate and overseas Gavin Lower . The Australian July 23, 2010 Continue reading
Australia’s Nuclear Reactor Agency cutting staff, reducing costs
there will be reductions in fixed costs and around 80 staff of ANSTO’s workforce of 1,009.”
Nuclear body ANSTO to cut 80 staff, cheap nike air, by selena on July 23rd, 2010 Continue reading
Report from UK Uranium Weapons Network
UWN is campaigning for the UK government to adopt a precautionary approach to the use of DU in conventional weaponry and for greater transparency over where DU has been used
Latest documents advocating the ban of depleted uranium. By Jerry Mazza, Online Journal, 23 July 2010, “…… recent documents gathered from reliable government and non-government sources. ………According to the UK Uranium Weapons Network, now submitting its evidence to the Iraq War Inquiry, “The UK Uranium Weapons Network (UWN) announced today that it has submitted its report on British military use of depleted uranium (DU) ammunition in the 2003 Iraq War to the Chilcot Inquiry. Continue reading
Greens call for ALP, Liberals to be honest about nuclear issue
“The Labor Party says they are against it but have let ANSTO head Dr Zigmunt Switkowski travel all over the country as atomic energy salesman-in-chief…..”An election campaign is when cards should go on the table. The Australian Greens oppose nuclear power in Australia. Where do the others stand?”
Greens call on major parties to declare their hand on nuclear energy , Scott Ludlam, 22nd July 2010, The Australian Greens are calling on Labor and the Coalition to be up-front with Australians about their position on nuclear power after a renewed push by the uranium lobby. Continue reading
Protest at Olympic Dam against effects on Aborigines, water, pollution
Zane Alcorn said: “Not only is the expansion at Olympic Dam going ahead without the consent of traditional owners, but tens of thousands of gigalitres of water per day is being sucked out of the Artesian Basin on Arabunna land to service the mine.
Protesters block mine. Roxby Downs Sun, 22 Jul, 2010 Forty anti-nuclear activists staged a protest on Friday against the Olympic Dam expansion, blockading the entrance and stopping traffic from entering.
The protest aimed to highlight the “catastrophic effects” the mine and its expansion would have on traditional owners and their natural resources. Activists painted themselves blue and used their bodies to spell words such as water, with some people partly naked to help draw attention to their views. Continue reading
Uranium marketers getting a bit desperate?
Mr Connor says with the current world oversupply of uranium, potential miners need to consider…..”You know, any customer they can find who gives them the money they need to be profitable and stable works,” he says
Think creatively on sales, says uranium marketer, ABC Rural News, 22/07/2010 A leading uranium marketer is encouraging emerging Australian producers to ‘think outside the box’ when selling yellowcake.
Mike Connor, from Nuclear Resources International, says…. Continue reading
Uranium accident shuts U.S. highway
U.S. Highway 412 …has been shut down …They initially reported that the chemical spilled was uranium
(USA) Uranium Accident Prompts Road Closure , Evacuations Reported Near Fairview, KOCO Oklahoma City, July 22, 2010 An accident involving a vehicle carrying cesium has forced the closure of a road in Major County, according to the Oklahoma Highway Patrol. According to a news release from the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety, U.S. Highway 412 at Bouse Junction east to State Highway 58 at Ringwood has been shut down for containment purposes. They initially reported that the chemical spilled was uranium.Fairview police said there have been evacuations about 1,000 feet around the area. It has not been determined whether anything is leaking.Authorities at the scene are waiting for officials from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to arrive from Tulsa.Chemical Accident Prompts Road Closure – Oklahoma City News Story – KOCO Oklahoma City
Northern Territory Minister convinced by nuclear lobby
We can’t rely on emotions,” Mr Vatskalis said.
Vatskalis breaks ranks to back nuclear power,Northern Territory News, NIGEL ADLAMJuly 23rd, 2010 TERRITORY Resources Minister Kon Vatskalis yesterday seemed to break ranks with the Labor Party and back an Australian nuclear power industry. He said at a mining conference in Perth that support for nuclear electricity-generating plants could grow when people had the “full facts and figures”. Continue reading
No U.S. waste dump in sight, as Yucca stays sghut
Hanford’s high level radioactive waste has been expected to go to Yucca Mountain, but the Obama administration is shutting the project down…..
HANFORD: Yucca Mountain funding voted down, Tri-City Herald, 22 July 2010, Annette Cary, An amendment to restore money to license the Yucca Mountain, Nev., nuclear repository failed in the Senate Appropriations Committee today. Continue reading
Greed and stupidity in uranium investment world
You would think that investors would wake up to the hype! The so-called “nuclear renaissance” is just not happening.
Even the market for nuclear weapons is now looking dodgy – these being no protection whatever from terrorists, (in fact a target for them)
China is looking to slow down its economy.- China’s supposed great uranium binge is a BHP executives’ fantasy
There is a glut of uranium supply, made worse by the weapons reduction program, which now supplies uranium (mining not needed)
From today’s CTV News: “Despite the low spot and term prices, uranium producers have shown almost no discipline by reducing current or planned output,”…Despite falling uranium prices, worldwide spending on exploration and mine development grew 133 per cent to $1.6-billion in 2008 from 2006″
In sunny Australia, passing up the chance to develop 21st Century renewables, we are mindlessly letting banks, super funds etc, put our money into this gaping hole of impending loss – the almost certainly doomed uranium industry.
Keep Fremantle nuclear and uranium free!
“Fremantle has been a nuclear-free city since 2000, and we are against any form of transportation of uranium through Fremantle.”
Uranium protesters rally in Fremantle, Sydney Morning Herald, ANGIE RAPHAEL, July 21, 2010 – Protesters have rallied against uranium mining ahead of a conference with major mining companies in Western Australia. Continue reading
The truth about uranium market’s poor prospects
Uranium Prices Have `Limited Upside’ With Market in Surplus, CRU Forecasts, Bloomberg, By Anna Stablum – Jul 21, 2010 Uranium supplies will exceed demand through 2012 and there is “limited upside” to prices for at least six months, London-based research company CRU said. Continue reading
Mindless media spouts nuclear propaganda
If something looks too good to be true, it usually is. Journalists need to look further than industry press releases and the word of nuclear boosters. If they want to write propaganda for the industry then they should quit their jobs and go and work there.
Clean’ nuclear power is just a dirty rumour, Greenpeace International, by jmckeati – July 20, 2010 Despite it being a complete fiction, it looks like the meme of nuclear power being a ‘clean’ energy source is taking hold in the media. Continue reading
Radioactive legacy of Western Australia’s uranium mining
Australian Greens Senator for WA Rachel Siewert has used the site to highlight the dangers of uranium mining.
“As the Australian Uranium Summit kicks off, it is crucial that West Australians get the full story,” Ms Siewert said. “Uranium mining and nuclear power is not clean, it is not safe and it is not cheap.”
High radiation levels ‘more than hundred times’ safe level at Wiluna mine | Perth Now, Narelle Towie, , July 21, 2010 RADIATION levels more than 100 times normal background readings have been recorded at an old uranium site, despite the area being “cleaned” a decade ago. Continue reading
Big Oil Disaster would be minor compared to Big Nuclear Disaster
Contrary to the nuclear industry’s propaganda, nuclear power is therefore not green and it is certainly not clean” and stands, as it has since the 1950′s as the most environmentally dangerous of all possible energy sources
Big Nuke Power = Big Potential for Disasters, OpEdNews, by mahdi ibn-ziyad, 20 July 2010, Imagine what a nuke facility disaster of like magnitude would do to whole regions of the US. The awful immediate and long term terrorunleashed on the environment, including us humans ,is almost unimaginable. Certainly, an end of the world, apocalyptic scenario would unfound and engulf us all in one way or another Continue reading
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