An Australian Aboriginal elder has lost his challenge to the federal government’s approval of expansion of the world’s biggest uranium mine. Kevin Buzzacott had argued that insufficient consideration had been paid to the operation’s long-term …
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Aboriginal elder loses bid to overturn expansion of BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam
BHP Billiton’s move against Aboriginal elder ‘punitive and vindictive’
MEDIA RELEASE AUSTRALIAN NUCLEAR FREE ALLIANCE
1st May 2012
DEMOCRACY AT A PRICE: DECISION BY BHP BILLITON AND FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO SEEK COSTS FROM ARABUNNA ELDER PUNITIVE AND VINDICTIVE
The Australian Nuclear Free Alliance (ANFA) …
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BHP Billiton wants money from Aboriginal elder
MEDIA RELEASE FRIDAY 20th APRIL 20212
MINING GIANT SEEKS COSTS FROM ARABUNNA ELDER AFTER RULING ON CHALLENGE TO FEDERAL APPROVAL OF THE OLYMPIC DAM EXPANSION
In a packed courtroom today Justice Besanko dismissed Uncle Kevin …
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Minister confident BHP will approve huge Olympic Dam expansion
South Australia’s Tom Koutsantonis is confident the miner will this year approve the expansion of the Olympic Dam mine, containing a world class copper-gold uranium deposit, even though it will cost billions of dollars.
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Cheap and green energy for miners
It may seem somewhat audacious for a company with a market value of $16 million to propose a world-leading energy project nearly one hundred times its value. But, says Petratherm managing director Terry Kallis, if …
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BHP Billiton AGM protest, London, 20 October 2011
Protesters from the Occupy LSX demonstration marched from St Paul’s cathedral to join anti-nuclear campaigners, supporters of London Mining Network member group Colombia Solidarity Campaign and others outside yesterday’s BHP Billiton AGM. See short video at …
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Australia approves $20-30bn BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam mine expansion
Global diversified miner BHP Billiton moved a step closer to expanding its large-scale Olympic Dam copper and uranium mine in Australia on Monday, after securing environmental approvals for the project.
See http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/view/mineweb/en/page72068?oid=137155&sn=Detail&pid=92730 and
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/10/bhpbilliton-idUSL3E7LA0FA20111010.…
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BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam uranium mine expansion
Information provided by Friends of the Earth, Adelaide
The Federal and South Australian Governments are currently considering the final Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed expansion of the Olympic Dam mine. This is the last …
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BHP posts mining industry’s biggest-ever profits
But the “Big Australian” is dogged by criticism
It’s currently one of the most successful companies anywhere, with a market capitalisation that puts it among the world’s top five corporations.
But, as London-listed BHP Billiton …
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UK capital’s importance as funder of global uranium production
If you put together the 2010 uranium output from mines owned by Rio Tinto (in Namibia and Australia), along with output from BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam mine in South Australia, these two London-listed companies rank …
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Nuclear: too hot to handle. But is uranium still warm?
BHP Billiton may delay expansion of Olympic Dam mine
“There hasn’t been a [nuclear] plant in the world built without the relevant government assuming much of the construction, operating and financing risk. There is not …
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