Comment: I agree, leave it in the ground everywhere, nuke power is a killing power, uranium is the beginning of the cycle of death, No uranium mining, keep the ban!
Saturday, August 6, 2011
The NSW government was evasive for several days on whether it would allow uranium exploration and mining, banned since 1986.
This followed the call by federal resources minister Martin Ferguson in May for NSW and Victoria to rethink their uranium mining bans.
Premier Barry O’Farrell and resources minister Chris Hartcher finally said on August 5 they would not overturn the uranium mining ban.
In mid-June, Hartcher met the chief executive of the Australian Uranium Association Michael Angwin, who is lobbying to overturn the ban, the Sydney Morning Herald said.
In an August 3 opinion piece on ABC Online, Angwin slammed the eastern states’ uranium bans as “authoritarian”.
The “occasion hiccup” includes contaminating underground aquifers with radioactive tailings and the spread of radioactive dust.
Indigenous communities in the Northern Territory and South Australia suffer some of the worst effects of this radioactive contamination.
And far from enjoying the spectacular economic benefits that Angwin claimed were being denied residents of the non-uranium mining eastern states, these communities are among the poorest in Australia.
Read more:
http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/48392
