31 Oct 11 Environment groups from around Australia have joined West Australian trade unions, environment groups and civil society organisations to call for no uranium mining in WA. The groups have submitted a formal submission to the WA Environmental Protection Agency detailing their concerns over plans by Toro Energy for uranium mining near Wiluna in WA’s central desert.
Leading national and international groups including Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, the Wilderness Society, the Australian Conservation Foundation and a number of States and Territory peak environment groups have urged the EPA not to approve the controversial Wiluna uranium mine and to instead support an independent public inquiry into plans for uranium mining in WA.
Public comment on the application for the Wiluna project, planned to be WA’s first uranium mine, closes today. Around two thousand submissions opposing uranium mining have been sent to the EPA. “There is growing national concern about the Barnett governments move to fast track uranium projects in WA,” said Conservation Council of Western Australia nuclear free campaigner Mia Pepper. “Many of the groups that support our call have a close experience of the costs and consequences of the nuclear industry and there is growing attention and resistance to this toxic industry in the West”.
The joint groups have identified fundamental deficiencies in the Toro Energy application including in such key areas as water, transport, cumulative pollution impact, Aboriginal heritage and radiation protection. These deficiencies are so significant that they preclude any credible approval of the Wiluna project.
“Many West Australians are opposed or have deep concerns about this planned industry, particularly in the shadow of Fukushima and the EPA should not sign off on this flawed project on the basis of this deficient application,” said Mia Pepper.“Radioactive waste lasts longer than a mining company and a lot longer than a Premier’s assurance. West Australian’s deserve no less than an independent public inquiry into plans for this contested industry.”
November 16, 2011 at 11:18 pm |
Re: Deccan herald report of 16 Nov 2011 where the minister is calling for repudiation of permit to UCIL to mine uranium:
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/205245/karnataka-minister-wants-govt-stall.html
Read the life destroying horrors of uranium mining in Indian and foreign mines at
http://www.global-sisterhood-network.org/content/view/2345/59/
One excerpt: In the absence of any independent study, anecdotal evidence suggests that the mineworkers are suffering an epidemic of lung cancer, skin disease and other chronic diseases.
Another: I now feel as if some insect is moving in my ear. I still feel sick because of drinking uranium-contaminated water; I am taking medicines for the last 15 years. They took my blood, stool, urine and even semen samples but the result was never shown to me. They kept telling me I have TB, “said Mangal Majhi of Matigora village Further, he said, “No one told us that we became sick by drinking uranium – contaminated water. We have witnessed of it on plants and animal here. There used to be ‘kendu’ fruits grown in the vicinity of UCIL and the tailing ponds, have turned seedless. The fish in the stream have developed all kinds of diseases and started dying. Cows and goats have also died. The buffaloes have shortened tail. Still, I am a sick person and one-fourth of my body is useless, even after taking medicines for 15 years.” Radiation affected Father and Son .
The authorities deny all this is due to radiation by applying ICRP safety guidelines based on external irradiation model unscientifically for the effects of internal contamination where dose concept is meaningless. See llrc.org for details of the great fraud committed on the gullible ignorant public.
Abandon nukes.
January 30, 2012 at 4:39 pm |
Reference…
Here’s an excellent example of precisely what I mean with that…