Uranium mining exempted from Resources tax, Ferguson fixes it.
Tax deal lifts cloud over miners, Sydney Morning Herald, 2 july 2010, Australia’s biggest miners face paying more tax, but not nearly as much as feared, after winning big concessions from the federal government….
Most importantly, the new tax will not affect BHP Billiton’s $23 billion plan to expand the massive Olympic Dam mine, the world’s biggest uranium deposit ….
Having signed off on the resource rent deal, only one major uncertainty remains for the miners. Will this new tax be approved by Australia’s Senate following an election expected in the next few months? Continue reading
Devastation of indigenous land by uranium mining
VIDEO Another Green World: McCain declares (nuclear) war on Navajo & Sioux McCain declares (nuclear) war on Navajo & Sioux, Another Green World, by Derek Wall, 1 July 2010 ‘Our Mother is 
suffering….’Radiation levels rising, uranium mining for ‘clean’ nuclear power is killing indigenous land in Arizona and McCain wants more, bet it would be different if his house was next to a radioactive mine.
Call to Australians to dump Ferguson’s nuclear waste dump plan
“The Government must stop pushing the Muckaty dump plan and establish an independent and public review of nuclear waste management options based on best science, transparent process and community inclusion and consent, as it committed to do in 2007.”
ACF is seeking community support and donations to run newspaper and billboard advertising in Melbourne, asking for him and the Government to ‘Dump the Dump’.Concerned Australians can find out more and donate at www.dumpthedump.org.au
AUSTRALIAN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION 2 July 2010 The Australian Conservation Foundation has launched a major new campaign to end Resources Minister Martin Ferguson’s plan for a nuclear waste dump at Muckaty, 120 kilometres north of Tennant Creek. Continue reading
Gloomy outlook for uranium share price
“The lack of movement of uranium price is the reason investors are not active. There is no incentive to invest if there is no movement in the underlying commodity.”
Mining Weekly 30 June 2010, “……………the market valuation fell over the past month, with Australian companies suffering a 4% decline and Canadian uranium firms a 2% drop.
Over the past three months, the market valuation fell by 16% for Australian miners and 15% for Canadian miners……most companies had seen share prices drop over the last three months.
ERA suffered a 27% drop in its three-months share price,
Stalled price tanks stocks | The Energy Collective 29 June Uranium price likely to remain flat for next few years – falling prices “…..A review of 12 Canadian uranium mining stocks – three producers and nine juniors – show a dismaying trend since December 2009.
Every quarter FCW compiles tracking information on stock prices across a selected list of producers and juniors. The trends for these companies as of June 11, 2010, is an unmistakable dive from prior values. Of the 12 stocks on our list , seven have seen their prices drop by more than 20% and three have seen their stock prices drop by more than 10%……..
“The lack of movement of uranium price is the reason investors are not active. There is no incentive to invest if there is no movement in the underlying commodity.”
South Australian govt ordered to pay legal costs of anti uranium protestors
Anti-uranium protesters win legal costs from SA Government , ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), 30 June 2010, A court has ordered the South Australian Government to pay the legal bills of nine people who were assaulted and unlawfully detained during an anti-uranium protest. Continue reading
Australia must act on Climate Change, but Nuclear is Not the Answer
Australian climate could be a “harbinger of change” to the rest of the world. What scientists say we have ahead of us if global warming is not prevented, such as Severe droughts and Fires, are already rife in Australia as climate change warms their already hot environment……
……All eyes will be on Australia in the coming years. It may well show a bleak future for the rest of us, unless we act now to prevent further global warming. Global Warming In Australia: A Climate Changing | Global Changes
BHP, Rio Tinto, aim for rampant ripoff of Australia’s resources
Christina Macpherson 29 June 2010, BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto etc paid lip service to Australia’s new Prime Minister Julia Gillard, in temporarily closing their multi-million dollar advertising campaign against the Australian Government’s proposed super profit resources tax.
They might now be back in force – because it’s no holds barred in the corporate mining world.
Do Australians realise that many responsible national bodies, and some international ones, such as the International Monetary Fund, see this resources tax as necessary and fair for Australians now and in the future?
It’s not an idea that’s unique to Australia. Similar taxes are now in existence in South Africa, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Chile, – Venezuela and Mongolia have gone further. Germany is introducing a uranium fuel tax. Perhaps the days of mining corporations’ rampant ripoff of national resources are coming to an end
No nuclear waste dump for uranium baron South Australia
with past scientific assessment declaring Woomera in South Australia as the best option, Premier Mike Rann was quickly on the defensive, saying a nuclear waste dump would jeopardise his state’s clean, green reputation.
“We took the Howard government to the High Court to stop the nation’s nuclear waste dump being set up in this state.
Arguments flare again over nuke waste dump, David Nason , The Australian , June 29, 2010 JULIA Gillard’s rise to Prime Minister has sparked a new debate over where to locate a nuclear waste dump. Continue reading
Water scarcity an increasing problem for nuclear industry
what, in particular, does this mean for the nation’s fleet of nuclear power plants?
Drought and heat waves in the United States and other countries have highlighted one of nuclear power’s most intractable vulnerabilities: water scarcity.
(USA) Water Scarcity: Nuclear Power’s Achilles’ Heel, THE HUFFINGTON POST Kyle Rabin: June 28, 2010, Scientists, researchers and other experts warn that the United States is entering an era of water scarcity.
Back in 2003, the US General Accounting Office (now known as the US Government Accountability Office or GAO) projected that 36 states, under normal conditions, could face water shortages by 2013. However, those shortages were realized in 2008 — five years sooner than predicted. Current forecasts suggest that climate change will only exacerbate the challenges of managing and protecting water resources. Continue reading
Zane Alcorn speaks out: the uranium industry must go
Zane Alcorn, candidate for Newcastle , Green Left Weekly, 26 June 2010, We need to stand behind the first people of this country and fight for their land and cultural rights. The government’s so-called concern for Aboriginal welfare and living conditions is nothing but a cloak for a blatant land grab.The uranium-rich land of central Australia is coveted by government and private mining corporations alike. Aboriginal land rights are a direct threat to this potential source of huge wealth. Continue reading
Compensation for uranium industry workers and communities
the health impacts on families of uranium workers and residents of uranium-development communities.
Senators want uranium compensation on fast track, GJSentinel.com, June 26, 2010 Colorado’s two U.S. senators are seeking a hearing on a bill that would expand the compensation program for the nation’s nuclear-weapons industry workers. Continue reading
A little primer on ionising radiation
Aboriginals to get basic rights in exchange for their land for uranium mining
For access to essential goods, services and infrastructure — a basic right for white Australia — communities are being forced to sign over their land rights. It’s a policy of starving people out to take their land…………
Youth candidates to witness NT intervention , Green Left Weekly, June 26, 2010 In July, Socialist Alliance election candidates…..— Jess Moore, Zane Alcorn and Ewan Saunders will join Indigenous activists, students, community groups and campaigners from across the country in Alice Springs for an important gathering of intervention-affected Aboriginal communities………….. Continue reading
Ewan Saunders comments on Northern Territory intervention
Ewan Saunders, candidate for Brisbane, Green Left Weekly, 26 June 2010, As Socialist Alliance candidates visit the NT in July to attend a national Indigenous and non-Indigenous convergence, Prime Minister Julia Gillard and opposition leader Tony Abbott will be sitting a very comfortable distance away from the communities affected by the NT intervention.
It makes for a revealing comparison: they can disagree on taxing the mining mega-corporations, but they can agree on stripping away the hard-won land rights of Aboriginal people in this country to hand over the land to mining interests.………Youth candidates to witness NT intervention | Green Left Weekly
In Finland, France, UK, nuclear resuscitation is stalling
Generation III nuclear reactors: late again, Greenpeace International, by jmckeati – June 25, 2010T he continuing and farcical story of the state of the art European Pressurised Reactor (EPR) being built by AREVA at Olkiluoto in Finland. The many, many diverse delays incompetence in the project have led to it being (at the time of writing) four years behind schedule and 2.3 billion euros over-budget. It’s not just in Finland, however, where the reactor that was supposed to relaunch the nuclear ‘renaissance’ is struggling. Continue reading
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