Calls for clarity on Chinese resources investment October 29, 2009 The Australian AUSTRALIA’S policy on Chinese investment in resources has, if anything, become murkier since Chinalco’s controversial $US19.5 billion Rio Tinto rescue package fell through earlier this year, prompting renewed calls for more clarity………………
Last month, FIRB executive director Patrick Colmer said the government preferred foreign investment in undeveloped mineral deposits to stay below 50 per cent, and for investment in “major producers” to stay below 15 per cent…………..
This was followed by a decision yesterday to let China Guangdong Nuclear Power pay more than $100 million for up to 73 per cent of Perth uranium explorer Energy Metals,
Archive for October, 2009
Chinese nuclear company buys 70 percent of Australian uranium miner
October 29, 2009World Indigenous Uranium Forum
October 28, 2009Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum a Success Indybay by Anna Rondon Oct 27th, 2009 This past weekend Indigenous Peoples from Alaska, North America, Bolivia and Japan converged near Acoma Pueblo for the 7th Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum in Sky City, New Mexico. (more…)
Indigenous victims of uranium mining
October 27, 2009The Forgotten Navajo: Uranium contamination —Pavement Pieces By Rachel Morgan on October 14, 2009
CHURCH ROCK, New Mexico — Teddy Nez’s home sits 500 feet from the mouth of abandoned uranium mine.
Since 1982, Nez and his family have been breathing in uranium particles and drinking uranium-contaminated water. (more…)
Indigenous sacred lands threatened by uranium mining
October 26, 2009A new demand for uranium power brings concerns for Navajo groups
Mining planned at a mountain considered sacred
By Kari Lydersen
Washington Post
October 25, 2009 Indian people gathered in Acoma, N.M., for the Indigenous Uranium Forum over the weekend decried future uranium extraction, especially from nearby Mount Taylor, considered sacred by many tribes. (more…)
Paldin’s Malawi uranium not monitored adequately
October 26, 2009Malawi: Govt. ignorant of exported Uranium tonnage | Business News – TheZimbabwean.co.uk by Nyasa Times Sunday, 25 October 2009 Government is yet to know about the quantity of Uranium exported by Australia-based Paladin Africa last month. (more…)
BHP shares down as OLympic Dam uranium mine stalls
October 22, 2009BHP warns of Olympic Dam disruption until 2010 Guardian.co.uk. 22 Oct 09 Following yesterday’s mixed production report from Xstrata, comes a similar theme from BHP Billiton. “………. (more…)
Uranium mine jobs could be lost at Olympic Dam
October 22, 2009Long outage expected for Olympic Dam THE AUSTRALIAN Matt Chambers | October 22, 2009 BHP Billiton has confirmed that damage to its Olympic Dam underground copper and uranium mine, caused by a plummeting fully loaded ore skip, will keep the operation at one-quarter capacity for up to six months. …… (more…)
America’s depleted uranium legacy
October 21, 2009America’s Poison Legacy Pacific Free Press by Dave Lindorff 19 October 2009 Depleted Uranium Weapons:
The Dead Babies in Iraq and Afghanistan Are No Joke The horrors of the US Agent Orange defoliation campaign in Vietnam, about which I wrote on Oct. 15, could ultimately be dwarfed by the horrors caused by the depleted uranium weapons which the US began using in the 1991 Gulf War (300 tons), and which it has used much more extensively–and in more urban, populated areas–in the Iraq War and the now intensifying Afghanistan War. (more…)
Inquiry into radioactive leak at Ranger uranium mine
October 21, 2009Probe into uranium mine leak continues ABC News Oct 20, 2009 The Commonwealth supervising scientist of the Ranger uranium mine at Kakadu National Park says investigations are continuing into water contamination at the site. (more…)
Depleted Uranium Use in Afghanistan
October 21, 2009The Deceit of Depleted Uranium Use in Afghanistan: Part 2 – The Vital Evidence The Palestine Telegraph Peter Eyre, Middle East Consultant 20 Oct 09
“………..The damage, done to human cells by DU particles incorporated into the human body is increased up to thousand folds compared to the damage done by X-rays. (more…)
