Uranium Major Niger Urged to Review Contracts, ABC News, NIAMEY (Reuters) 14 March 2010, - The new junta ruling in Niger, one of the world’s biggest uranium producers, should review and possibly renegotiate dozens of resource exploitation contracts, civil rights groups said on Saturday. The West African state, which produces 7.5 percent of the world’s uranium, has a longstanding partnership with French nuclear group Areva as well as more recent ones with Australian, Canadian, Chinese, South Korean and other groups.
“Given the opacity surrounding the granting of mining and oil permits in recent years, we urge the immediate creation of a commission of inquiry … and any necessary steps, notably the renegotiation of contracts,” the ROTAB group, a collective of anti-corruption pressure groups, said in a statement.
Posts Tagged ‘secrets and lies’
Niger: call for inquiry into uranium deals with foreign companies
March 27, 2010Kazakhstan’s history of crooked uranium deals
March 27, 2010Kazakhs accuse ex-uranium boss of money laundering
Lest we forget- shameful report on BHP Billiton
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…)
New Zealand P.M devious about his uranium mining shares
February 17, 2010Key’s uranium mining interests The Standard By: Marty G February 16th, 2010 - There’s a few things about Key’s story regarding his shares in Jackson Mining that don’t stack up. First, he says Jackson Mining was just an Aussie gold mining company when he bought them and that they didn’t get involved in uranium until a merger that saw become part of a company with uranium mines in South America. But Jackson mining was already involved in uranium exploration in South America before that merger when Key listed his interest in the company last year. Second,
………..Jackson Company has significant interests in mining uranium in Australia and Argentina, in the new guise of the company which is called Cauldron. ……..Key’s government continues with its moves to open up the conversation estate to Australian mining interests.
Radioactive waste entering drinking water wells, from uranium mining
January 29, 2010Why 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…)
U.S. Army secretive over depleted uranium dump in Hawaii
January 20, 2010“The burden should be on the Army to prove no harm. The Army says there is no harm because they haven’t looked and don’t want to look,” said Albertini. “A license to possess depleted uranium is a nuclear waste dump.”
Residents accuse Army of covering up contamination. DEPLETED URANIUM By NANCY COOK LAUER
WES T HAWAII TODAY 15 Jan 2010
ncook-lauer@westhawaiitoday.comHILO — Four Hawaii residents charged the U.S. Army with trying to cover up its discovery of depleted uranium and then taking a cavalier attitude about cleaning it up during a five-hour hearing Wednesday before a panel of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. (more…)
Workers given uranium to drink
January 20, 2010.the special committee decided only to reprimand verbally the two researchers who initiated the study…
Inside Intel / Uranium, down the hatch Haaretz.com By Yossi Melman 14 Jan 2010 Last August, Haaretz revealed that workers at the Dimona nuclear reactor had been required to participate in an experiment in which they drank a certain quantity of uranium mixed with juice. (more…)
Soldiers were guinea pigs for depleted uranium
December 29, 2009An Australian royal commission first discovered the use of depleted uranium in atomic tests at Maralinga
Global changes ruining the world September 25, 2009 Human Nuclear Action
UK Admits Soldiers Used in Radiation Experiments The UK Ministry of Defense admitted on 12 May that it exposed British, Australian and New Zealand servicemen to radiation in tests during the 1950s and 1960s. (more…)
BHP Billiton under fire from Catholic priest
November 2, 2009Columban priest tackles a mining giant Independent Catholic News By: Ellen Teague November 1, 2009 A Columban priest has challenged the appalling environmental and human rights record of the world’s biggest mining company at its recent AGM on 29 October. (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…)
