the big mining companies have been pressuring Australian governments to allow the opening of more mines and the establishment of a nuclear waste dump. The forced or coopted loss of Aboriginal control of their land is an important step to achieving this.
Fight for Aboriginal Rights: Labor steps up racist NT land grab, By Hamish Chitts. Rudd would make a great snake-oil seller because for all his lofty words over the past year,….. (more…)
Australia remains firm against sale of uranium to India, The Hindu, AP March 19, 2010 Any Australian uranium sales to Russia would meet non-proliferation requirements, but the government remains firmly against sales to India, Trade Minister Simon Crean said on Friday. (more…)
Scott Ludlam 18th March 2010, On the eve of the most important international disarmament negotiations in a generation, the Rudd Government has foreshadowed uranium sales to Russia, which holds the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons. (more…)
MLA links outstation funds to uranium mine By Kirsty Nancarrow, ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)Feb 18, 2010
The Northern Territory Government could be investing in a new Central Australian outstation as part of a push to develop a uranium mine, a politician has claimed. (more…)
No uranium through Oakajee: Premier ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Mar 25, 2010
The Premier Colin Barnett has ruled out using the proposed Oakajee deepwater port north of Geraldton to ship uranium products. (more…)
WA stock values fall in January WA Business News Finance: 17-February-
Berkeley Resources announced it had terminated its head of agreements signed in March 2006 with French nuclear power group Areva NC. In doing so, any rights previously granted to Areva for off-take or marketing of uranium production from Berkeley’s projects have been terminated with immediate effect,….
Relevant to the proposed BHP Roxby new open pit and to the Ranger expansion – will they leave nothing but waste and cleanup bills (comment from David Noonan)
Call to levy mining firms for green fund KIM MACDONALD, The West Australian January 26, 2010,
Former scientist of the year Jorg Imberger has called for a five per cent levy on mining companies to pay for social and environmental programs, amid revelations only a fifth of export sales money stays in WA. (more…)
“Is the Premier saying that no matter what environmental impact there may be, he is giving BHP the go-ahead to put the desal plant there?”
BHP insists Point lowley best for desalination plant Adelaide Now SARAH MARTIN
January 08, 2010
BHP Billiton says building its proposed desalination plant anywhere but Point Lowly on the Spencer Gulf would cost “hundreds of millions” more dollars. (more…)
.….FIRB members provide advice to the treasurer on contentious investment proposals. Douglass joins expanded FIRB board Sydney Morning Herald JACOB SAULWICK December 11, 2009
THE fund manager and former investment banker Hamish Douglass has been appointed to the Foreign Investment Review Board, giving him a front-row seat to some of the country’s biggest corporate deals. (more…)
BHP chief takes on shareholder activists ABC Radio PM Annie Guest reported this story on November 26, 2009 The protestors outside and shareholder activists inside raised concerns about uranium mining and storage… (more…)
