Sun, 14 Feb 2010 4:45p.m.
By Adam Hollingworth
The Prime Minister is divesting his shares in a company which mines for uranium.
The Australian gold mining company in which Mr Key has held shares has merged with a uranium mining company, but he claims he didn't know.
The National Party has held a nuclear-free stance for more than two decades and the opposition says Mr Key should have made it his business to know what he'd invested in.
He realised he has thrown his money at what's turned out to be a big nuclear no-no.
Last January Mr Key declared investments in Jackson Mining - an Australian gold mining company - but since then it's merged with Scimitar Resources which mines for uranium to form cauldron energy.
“Apparently they've done a merger with another company, on that basis I’ll just look to dispose of those shares - I’m not wedded to them,” says Mr Key.
While Mr Key seemed to be having a bad day with money, his opponents say he's sold out New Zealand’s green credentials.
Green MP Russel Norman says the shares are not a good look.
“New Zealand goes to the world and says that it's nuclear free, we can't really have our Prime Minister investing in a uranium mining company,” he says.
But the opposition will continue to attack his long-term interest in mining at a time when mining the national parks is such a serious consideration
Read more:
http://www.3news.co.nz/Key-criticised-over-shares-in-uranium-mining-company-/tabid/419/articleID/141682/Default.aspx
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Monday, February 15, 2010
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More groups join protest of uranium mill
In the Paradox Valley, a question of water
By Matthew Beaudin
Editor
Published: Monday, February 8, 2010 8:37 PM CST
The list of opposition to a proposed uranium mill in Paradox Valley keeps growing.
Last week, two Utah-based conservation groups took up arms against Energy Fuels’ planned uranium mill to be built on a swath of western Colorado’s high farmland.
Moab-based groups Red Rock Forests and Living Rivers are challenging the company’s application to pump groundwater from the Dolores River basin, and in doing so join local group Sheep Mountain Alliance and a coalition of groups in opposition of the would-be mill. Living Rivers Conservation Director John Weisheit says the Dolores River is one of the West’s most scenic and a popular river for whitewater rafting.
The Dolores is a 250-mile tributary of the Colorado River that drains into Utah, and Energy Fuels needs the water to process uranium ore. The river cuts across the Paradox Valley, a lofty piece of land between towering red walls an hour northwest of Telluride.
The debate over the mill and the possible resurgence of Uranium mining in a region where it once boomed has proven paradoxical; opponents have questioned the environmental record of the industry while those in support say they need the jobs a revived industry pledges.
Currently, the Colorado Department of Health and Environment is reviewing the project and could take up to 18 months to make a decision.
Other environmental groups are protesting the very approval from Montrose County the project hinges upon, disputing how the permit was obtained.
Sheep Mountain Alliance, a local environmental group, filed a lawsuit against the Montrose County Commissioners and its land use director, alleging a hopscotch of missteps in the board’s approval of the uranium mill to be built six miles outside of Paradox, Colo.
The problems in the approval, they say, are far-reaching and systemic: At the heart of the matter is the notion that a uranium mill — heavy in both regulation and stigma — could be plopped down in the middle of the lofty and stark valley, which is zoned for agricultural uses. The complaint alleges inappropriate meetings, abuses of discretion when approving a special use permit for Energy Fuels.
The groups say that the federal government failed to consider the cumulative effects of increased leasing.
Recently, a judge ruled that environmental groups can obtain information on given federal leases to challenge the program.
Read more:
http://www.telluridenews.com/articles/2010/02/08/news/doc4b70c73680b63735642660.txt
By Matthew Beaudin
Editor
Published: Monday, February 8, 2010 8:37 PM CST
The list of opposition to a proposed uranium mill in Paradox Valley keeps growing.
Last week, two Utah-based conservation groups took up arms against Energy Fuels’ planned uranium mill to be built on a swath of western Colorado’s high farmland.
Moab-based groups Red Rock Forests and Living Rivers are challenging the company’s application to pump groundwater from the Dolores River basin, and in doing so join local group Sheep Mountain Alliance and a coalition of groups in opposition of the would-be mill. Living Rivers Conservation Director John Weisheit says the Dolores River is one of the West’s most scenic and a popular river for whitewater rafting.
The Dolores is a 250-mile tributary of the Colorado River that drains into Utah, and Energy Fuels needs the water to process uranium ore. The river cuts across the Paradox Valley, a lofty piece of land between towering red walls an hour northwest of Telluride.
The debate over the mill and the possible resurgence of Uranium mining in a region where it once boomed has proven paradoxical; opponents have questioned the environmental record of the industry while those in support say they need the jobs a revived industry pledges.
Currently, the Colorado Department of Health and Environment is reviewing the project and could take up to 18 months to make a decision.
Other environmental groups are protesting the very approval from Montrose County the project hinges upon, disputing how the permit was obtained.
Sheep Mountain Alliance, a local environmental group, filed a lawsuit against the Montrose County Commissioners and its land use director, alleging a hopscotch of missteps in the board’s approval of the uranium mill to be built six miles outside of Paradox, Colo.
The problems in the approval, they say, are far-reaching and systemic: At the heart of the matter is the notion that a uranium mill — heavy in both regulation and stigma — could be plopped down in the middle of the lofty and stark valley, which is zoned for agricultural uses. The complaint alleges inappropriate meetings, abuses of discretion when approving a special use permit for Energy Fuels.
The groups say that the federal government failed to consider the cumulative effects of increased leasing.
Recently, a judge ruled that environmental groups can obtain information on given federal leases to challenge the program.
Read more:
http://www.telluridenews.com/articles/2010/02/08/news/doc4b70c73680b63735642660.txt
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