Keswick says No to nuke dump
Following a public outcry, Keswick Town Council voted 9 to 3 to say NO to going any further along in the plan for a nuclear dump. At a previous …
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London Calling muses on the future of Mining’s Giants
Two of the world’s three biggest mining companies – BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto – are currently “dialing down their risks and the pace of their previous dash for growth”. This is in order that …
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Nuclear Grim Reapers and Liquidators join The Big Six Energy Bash
Kick Nuclear and friends, dressed up as Nuclear Grim Reapers and Liquidators, joined hundreds of environmental and social justice activists at The Big Six …
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Hundreds of climate activists and anti-cuts protesters disrupt UK energy summit
Yesterday hundreds of protesters from climate and anti-cuts groups across the country teamed up to block the UK Energy Summit in the City of London. At least 300 protesters targeted all of the main entrances …
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Aboriginal elder loses bid to overturn expansion of BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam
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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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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BHP Billiton’s uranium mine expansion challenged in court
MEDIA RELEASE
Monday 2nd April
OLYMPIC DAM APPROVAL CHALLENGED IN FEDERAL COURT THIS WEEK
David and Goliath: Kevin Buzzacott v Federal Environment Minister, SA Government and BHP Billiton
Uncle Kevin Buzzacott, Aboriginal Elder of the …
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Nuclear news: reflections on the anniversary of the Fukushima disaster
Fukushima, One Year Later – Nuclear Power and the Big Lie http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/03/05/nuclear-power-and-the-big-lie/#.T1U_zJiZOuQ.gmail
Time to say goodbye to nuclear power http://mdn.mainichi.jp/perspectives/news/20120307p2a00m0na003000c.html
Fukushima Residents Live With Fear Of Radiation http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/07/japan-tsunami-anniversary-fukushima-residents_n_1326077.html
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.
See …
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Canada: A daughter of Elliot Lake recalls uranium’s deadly toll
A dozen Canadian uranium mines operated during the period covered in the following article, penned by the daughter of a miner who once worked there – and died as a result. Of these twelve mines, …
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