Posts Tagged ‘uranium’
October 7, 2010
In no deregulated energy market, anywhere in the world, is the private sector putting up its own money to build nuclear power stations. The industry remains on subsidised life support everywhere and is making headway only in a tiny handful of countries with state ownership of generators and command and control energy networks.
Old-tech nuclear power is not the answer Scott Ludlam : The Australian * September 17, 2010 “………….An apparent blindness in the boardrooms and editorial desks of Australia is preventing the acceptance of this basic fact: the nuclear industry, at heart, is a military industry holding up a battered commercial facade. (more…)
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October 7, 2010
We still do not know whether or how key issues – such as workers’ health and safety, tailings rehabilitation, transport and groundwater impacts – will be addressed by the panel. We fear that crucial issues, such as impacts on workers’ health and communities and nuclear weapons proliferation, will not be addressed at all.
The panel excludes experts in relevant areas such as occupational health and safety, transport, Aboriginal heritage and native title, non-proliferation and safeguards.
Uranium industry’s record raises doubts, The West Australian, By Mia Pepper, September 16th, 2010, The Barnett Government recently announced that the Australian Centre for Geomechanics had won a tender to form an “independent panel on uranium mining regulations”. Sitting on the panel are pro-nuclear lobbyists and behind the scenes are corporate sponsors including some that are anything but independent. (more…)
Tags:antinuclear, Australia, BHP Billiton, BHPB, nuclear, nuclear secrets, uranium
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September 4, 2010
if re-elected, Labor would accept Mr Lee’s offer to incorporate the 1228 hectares of environmentally sensitive land he owns into world heritage-listed Kakadu.The move would block plans by French nuclear energy giant Areva to extract 14,000 tonnes of uranium from its mineral leases in the area
Aboriginal custodian turns back on riches, The Age, LINDSAY MURDOCH, DARWIN, August 11, 2010 AN ABORIGINAL traditional owner who could have become one of Australia’s richest people if he had allowed uranium mining on his land near Kakadu National Park says he is not interested in money. (more…)
Tags:antinuclear, AREVA, Australia, uranium
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May 18, 2010
Any mining would “damage the positioning and realisation of SA as a legitimate world-class, nature-based ecotourism destination”,
Union calls for uranium mining in Arkaroola sanctuary | Adelaide Now, Christopher Russell, 14 May 2010, ONE of the nation’s most powerful unions says uranium miners should be allowed to exploit a huge deposit of the mineral in the Arkaroola reserve in the northern Flinders Ranges…..the union and the miners face a bitter battle to develop the pristine wilderness and popular film setting known as one of the state’s natural geological wonders. (more…)
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May 13, 2010
Take your pick and get out of Africa | Herald Sun, Olga Galacho , 6 May 2010, IF THE flap of a butterfly’s wings can cause an effect on the other side of the world, then it should follow that certain mining activities in Africa should shame some Australian investors. “…… (more…)
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April 5, 2010
a major hurdle for dozens of proposed in-situ uranium proposals in the region
Water concerns delay Wyoming uranium projects, 30 march 2010, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has told the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to go back to the drawing board with its site-specific environmental reviews of three proposed in-situ uranium mines in Wyoming. (more…)
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March 26, 2010
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…)
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March 26, 2010
“Aboriginal claimants are being severely disadvantaged by the ‘commercial imperatives’ of these mining giants,”
Treasurer approves WMC takeover The Age, April 4, 2005 Anglo-Australian resources giant BHP Billiton has been given the green light by Treasurer Peter Costello for its $9.2 billion takeover of Australian miner WMC Resources. (more…)
Tags:aboriginal, antinuclear, BHP Billiton, BHPB, indigenous, Olympic Dam, uranium
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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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