Uranium mining and the environment

Local issues - National issues - Global issues

Local issues

Jabiluka: Yvonne Says "No"
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/
stories/s10765.htm
Yvonne Margarula is under enormous pressure from a number of different areas - the mining company, the Federal Government, the Northern Land Council, the media, everyone seems to be knocking on her door.

Environment Centre of the Northern Territory
http://www1.octa4.net.au/ecnt/Links.htm
Green Links. The Amazing Environmental Organisation Web Directory. Official Jabiluka Blockade Website. Uranium Research Group. Gundjehmi Aboriginal...

Jabiluka Mill Alternative
http://www.lpe.nt.gov.au/enviro/EIAREG/
jabmilalt/default.htm
Assessment Report 26: JABILUKA MILL ALTERNATIVE ; Environmental Assessment Report and Recommendations by the Environment and Heritage Division,Department of Lands, Planning and Environment. July 1998

Jabiluka Number 2 Uranium Mine
http://www.lpe.nt.gov.au/enviro/EIAREG/
Jabiluka/Jabiluka.htm
Assessment Report 22; Jabiluka Number 2 Uranium Mine Proposal

Environmental Impact Assessment in the NT
http://www.lpe.nt.gov.au/dlpe/enviro/EIAinNT.htm
Facts sheet; EIA process; Environmental Assessment Register; Environmental Assessment Legislation; Links to site maps & data, historyÉ

Gundjehmi Aboriginal Corporation
http://www.green.net.au/gundjehmi/media.htm
Media Releases

Aboriginal Concerns with Uranium
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~greenntt/aborigin.htm
Aboriginal Benefits Trust Fund; Traditional Owners; Northern Land council Press Releases; Relevant Aboriginal Incorporations; Links

National issues

The Green Blues
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/bbing/
stories/s10825.htm
A little over a decade go, big environmental battles could make or break governments. The Australian Democrats are Australia's biggest green-oriented party and their private polling has found the electorate is not focused on big environmental issues any more. The environment is not mentioned in the constitution, technically responsibility for environmental management for the land belong with the States.

Election Special
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/
earth/stories/s13079.htm
There environment problems associated with mining in Kakadu National Park. Inspite of what the government says about it being excised, it is part of the same eco system and a mine will do enormous damage.

Ranger Uranium Mine
Some of the environmental breaches so far
http://aucwa.iinet.net.au/australian_industry
/nt_industry/ranger-toxic.html
The reality of the Ranger environmental assault on Kakadu can be seen by reference to the incidents reported in the Supervising Scientist Annual Reports (1985-1996). These are only some of the environmental breaches reported - the real impacts of the mine may not be known for years.

Commonwealth Environment Laws
http://www.acfonline.org.au/index_epbc.html
The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Bill is currently before the Senate. The Bill will reduce the capacity of the federal government to set national standards for environment protection and sustainability issues. Information and media releases about the EPBC Bill.

The Proposed Jabiluka Uranium Mine
http://www.environment.gov.au/ssg/austuran/jabiluka.html
The Jabiluka lease pre-dates and is surrounded by the world famous Kakadu National Park, which has been inscribed on the World Heritage list due to its outstanding natural and cultural values. Site Maps, Uranium mining in Australia. Environmental issues, occupational radiation exposure, water management, tailing disposal.

Australian Conservation Foundation
http://www.acfonline.org.au/fr_campaigns.htm
Links, publications, forum, campaigns, latest media releases

Jabiluka Mill Alternative: Synopsis of key issues and processes
http://www.erin.gov.au/portfolio/epg/eianet/notifications
/MIJ_synopsis.html
Energy Resources of Australia Ltd., (ERA) document Links to Environmental Assessments by Evironment Austraslia; Legislation; summary of AustaliaÕs submission to UNESCO

Hill Delivers on Jabiluka Commitment Media Release 28 June 1996
http://www.erin.gov.au/portfolio/
minister/env/96/mr28jun.html
Senator Robert Hill Leader of the Government in the Senate Minister for the Environment. Media Release. Hill Delivers on Jabiluka Commitment. 28 June 1996.

The Wilderness Society
http://nccnsw.org.au/member/tws/news/media/index.html
Media Release Index. Kakadu, Jabiluka, World Heritage

82 Reasons Why the New Environment Legislation is Bad for the Environment
http://www.wilderness.org.au/projects/
General/82reasons.html
The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Bill 1998 is the biggest rewrite of Commonwealth environmental laws for 25 years

Environmental Law
http://www.legalprofiles.com.au/aol/environment.html
Environmental law attempts to regulate the impact of mankind's activities on the environment.

Radiation Protection Regulations and Standards in Australia and New Zealand
http://www.arl.gov.au/arps/ANZ_Regs.htm
Legislation; Codes of Practice; Standards; Other Publications

Australian National Parks
http://www.speednet.com.au/~abarca/
npj9808/npj9808a.htm#Back
National Parks Journal;Commonwealth Environment Protection: Biodiversity Conservation Bill 1998. Comments by Katherine Wells

Uranium Mining Versus Aboriginal Land Rights
http://csf.colorado.edu/lists/pen-l/jan98/0247.html
Jabiluka involves the issues of native title and Wik, and whether we are prepared to respect Aboriginal peoples' rights to control their land"

Ecopolitics XI Conference
http://www.politics.unimelb.edu.au/
ecopolitics/alpha2.htm
Abstracts; Links

Jabiluka Date index
http://www.wilderness.org.au/projects/Jabiluka/
Jabiluka and Kakadu discussion papers

The Economic Propaganda of Jabiluka
http://www.urg.org.au/jabiluka/
economics_of_jabiluka.htm
The Value of the Mine to the Australian Economy; The Economic Benefits to Aboriginal People; who makes the money?

Australia's Uranium Deposits and Prospective Mines
http://www.uic.com.au/pmine.htm#jabiluka
Maps; Background information

Energy Resources of Australia Ltd.
http://www.energyres.com.au/media-releases/
financial/rel-1999043000.html
ERA - Quarterly Profit, Production & Exploration Report 29 Apro; 1999

Our Culture - Our Future
http://www.icip.lawnet.com.au/summary.htm
The current Australian legal framework offers limited recognition and protection of Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property

Westpac and Jabiluka: The Facts
http://www.wilderness.org.au/member/tws/
projects /Jabiluka//westpac.html
Westpac is helping to finance the Jabiluka Uranium Mine project.

ABC Radio National Search Engine
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/
Search for recent reports on Jabiluka by typing "Jabiluka" or a related topic into the search box.

Global issues

Report on the mission to Kakadu National Park
Australia, 26 October to l November 1998
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~greenntt/unesco.htm
The report focuses primarily on ascertained and potential threats to the World Heritage values of Kakadu National Park posed by the Jabiluka mining proposal, and presents recommendations concerning mitigating measures.

The Case Against Uranium Solution Mining
http://www.sea-us.org.au/proposed/islsuks.html
The nuclear industry claims that the uranium mining technique of In Situ Leaching is "a controllable, safe, and environmentally benign method of mining which can operate under strict environmental controls and which often has cost advantages".

Honour our earth
http://www.honorearth.com/newakwasasne.html
The Akwesasne Task Force on the Environment

Honour our earth
http://www.honorearth.com/newarticles.html
Environmental justice; Nulear waste; Indigenous knowledge

Environmental battle waged in Australia's Kakadu National Park
http://editor@earthtimes.org/oct/
environmentenvironmentalbattleoct26_98.htm
(link outdated - go to http://editor@earthtimes.org for recent articles)
The World Heritage listed area, home to the Mirrar people for more than 50,000 years, is also the site of a uranium mining lease.

Unclean, Unsafe and Unwanted
http://www.sea-us.org.au/
Nuclear Issues :Background Information for Schools and Community

The Gulliver File
http://www.sea-us.org.au/gulliver/gulliver.html
Corporate Dossiers on Global Uranium Miners. Pancontinental. ERA, Pioneer International, Ranger Uranium Mines.

Jabiluka
http://www.urg.org.au/jabiluka/index.htm
Links to UNESCO World Heritage Report; Kakadu Regional Social Impact study; economic propoganda on Jabiluka; graphics.