Posts Tagged ‘radioactive wastes’
October 7, 2010
The group Eastern Navajo Dine against Uranium Mining presented convincing evidence that mining would contaminate groundwater, including the communities’ primary drinking water source, the NMELC said.
NM uranium mining case appealed to US Supreme Court « New Mexico Independent, By Marjorie Childress 9/16/10 The New Mexico Environmental Law Center filed an appeal Wednesday asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse a lower court’s decision to allow (ISL) uranium mining in the Four Corners region of New Mexico. (more…)
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October 7, 2010
State regulators asserted that people at fences around Energy Fuels’ 880-acre site could be exposed to radiation approaching a 25-millirem limit. “A projected dose that approaches a regulatory limit cannot be considered trivial,” a CDPHE document said.
Uranium-mill plan near Naturita raises concerns about toxic waste – The Denver Post, Bruce Finley, 16 Sept 10, State regulators have raised concerns about toxic waste, radiation and water supply at what would be the nation’s first conventional uranium mill opened since the Cold War. (more…)
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March 26, 2010
Half-truths and evasions: BHP Billiton attacked for human rights, environmental record
Report of the BHP Billiton plc AGM, 23 October, 2008, London Report by Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network. Opinions expressed or implied in this report do not necessarily reflect those of all member groups of London Mining Network.
Summary At its AGM (annual shareholders’ meeting) in London on 23 October, BHP Billiton was attacked over its record in the Philippines, Indonesia,Guatemala and Colombia, its failure to endorse the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and its role in worsening climate change and producing a radioactive legacy for future generations. (more…)
Tags:antinuclear, Australia, BHP Billiton, BHPB, indigenous, Olympic Dam, radiation, radioactive wastes, secrets and lies, uranium
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March 26, 2010
Is Flinders University doing a “Yes Minister” style water study about the Great Artesian Basin? Flinders University rosettamoon 
ecember 8th, 2008
When one of the globe’s biggest polluters and wasters of water, BHP Billiton, has been strangely exempted from legislative and environmental responsibility (Indenture Act 1982), – one must question the scope of this enquiry, and whether it’s a ‘Yes Minister” style knee-jerk reaction to the ever increasing adverse publicity surrounding the wholesale wasteage of water at Roxby Downs and other mine locations in South Australia. (more…)
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March 26, 2010
Mega-everything: the world’s biggest open cut mine
OnLine opinion By Sandra Kanck – 24 August 2009
Tailings storage facility
Fauna mortalities associated with exposure to the acid liquor of the existing tailings dam were 895 in 2005-06, 311 in 2006-07 and 282 in 2007-08. As well as birds, seven species of mammal and eight species of reptiles have been killed.BHP Billiton recognises these figures underplay the impact because of the removal of carcasses by scavengers or the sinking of dead birds before detection. They state “If the habitat is modified or increases in area, the number and diversity of species increases accordingly”. So still more birds and animals will be attracted to the world’s largest tailings dam, and still more of them will die as a consequence.
Undertakings are given to put netting in place to deter birds and for further research into methodologies to reduce the number of fauna deaths. The EIS acknowledges that methodologies used to date have had varied success. Despite this, the EIS appears to be leading the public to accept an increase in deaths as being an inevitable cost we will have to bear.
Mega-everything: the world’s biggest open cut mine – On Line Opinion – 24/8/2009
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February 12, 2010
(USA) League of Individuals for the Environment Feb. 5--Concerns over proposed uranium mining in Pittsylvania County led the Southern Environmental Law Center to include the Roanoke River basin in its 2010 list of top 10 endangered places in its coverage area.
This is the first year the environmental advocacy group included the Roanoke River on its list, said senior attorney Kay Slaughter.The river, she said, provides drinking water to millions in southern Virginia and parts of northern North Carolina, includ-ing Virginia Beach and Henderson, N.C.
“The reason for the whole basin is its potential endangerment, not just from uranium, but the other chemicals used in the mining and milling process,” Slaughter said.The list, released this week, also includes the Chesapeake Bay and the mountainous coal region of southwestern Vir-ginia. The Southern Environmental Law Center does work in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee and Alabama.
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January 29, 2010
Why do nuclear companies always start by denying there is a problem when there is a problem, only admitting it when there is a lot of pressure hoping the issue is already forgotten? For years AREVA denied the problems in Niger and now in Brazil! With such track record do they really expect us to believe anything they say?
Greenpeace, by Rianne Teule, 29 Jan 2010 In October 2008,……Greenpeace published data showing that drinking water around the Caetité uranium mine in the state of Bahia, Brazil was contaminated with uranium levels up to seven times higher than the World Health Organisation’s recommendations. The Bahia Institute of Water Management and Climate (Ingá) opened its own investigation in the matter. In November 2009 they suspended the use of water from six wells preventively, because radioactivity in the wells was found to be above allowed limits. (more…)
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January 29, 2010
Depleted uranium gets more and more hazardous for at least 1 million years. In contrast, most of the Class A waste at the Utah site is supposed to pose virtually no radiation risk after 100 years………..
Public largely critical of depleted uranium disposal - State has already borne a heavy burden from the nuclear industry, one Utahn says. By Judy FahysThe Salt Lake Tribune: 01/26/2010 Utah’s depleted uranium regulations should ensure no harm will come to the public or the environment as long as the waste remains dangerous — and that, said some Utahns on Tuesday, means the radioactive waste does not belong in a shallow disposal site in western Utah. (more…)
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January 21, 2010
Uranium Mining in Virginia Symposium 11 March 2010
Appomattox Area Calendar By Linda on 18 January 2010 Join Friends of the Earth for a Uranium Mining in Virginia Symposium in Richmond, VA. The goals of the symposium are to examine the health and socio-economic impacts of proposed uranium mining in Virginia.
The conference will provide participants with information about experiences with uranium mining all over the world. Specific attention will be given to the water quality and quantity impacts of uranium mining, alternatives to uranium mining, health consequences of uranium mining to local populations, and new versus old techniques of uranium mining.
(Note: The conference will not focus on the pros and cons of nuclear reactors and power plants). For more information, please contact Brent Blackwelder, President emeritus, Friends of the Earth at 202-966-3451 or by email at “tbbackwelder @ yahoo.com” (remove quotes and spaces).Location TBD (near the State Capitol) Richmond, VA10am-5pm6pm receptionWho Should Attend?State And Local Officials, The Media, Concerned Citizens, Planners, Those Living In Potentially Impacted Areas
Speakers:
- Doug Brugge, Professor of Public Health & Community Medicine at Tufts University
- Gordon Edwards Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility
- Manuel Pino Director of American Indian Studies, Scottsdale Community College
- Paul Robinson Research Director, SW Research & Information Center (N.M.)
Sponsoring Organizations:
- Friends Of The Earth
- Piedmont Environmental Council
- Sierra Club, Virginia Chapter
- Southern Environmental Law Center
Uranium Mining in Virginia Symposium
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