Sci-Am reports, US finds Gas drilling creates dangerous levels of radioactive waste water – Is australia monitoring waste water in its expanding Gas projects??

 

Natural Gas Drilling Produces Radioactive Wastewater

Wastewater from natural gas drilling in New York state is radioactive, as high as 267 times the limit safe for discharge into the environment and thousands of times the limit safe for people to drink   By Abrahm Lustgarten and ProPublica

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Uranium mine given not-so-green light by fallen activist Peter Garrett, Greens say his Beverley decision is ‘delusional’

Garrett’s Beverley Uranium decision ‘delusional’

Peter Garrett’s claims that the new Beverley Four Mile uranium mine will be world’s best practice are “unfounded and border on delusional,” according to the Greens Nuclear Spokesperson, Senator Scott Ludlam.

“This acid injection uranium mine will dump liquid radioactive waste into regional groundwater body and the Minister is trying to argue this won’t damage the environment,” said Senator Ludlam.

“In an age of water scarcity, acid in-situ leach mining should be illegal in Australia, end of story. We need only look at the contamination legacy of the nearby Beverley mine, to get an idea of just how badly Peter Garrett has misjudged this application.”‪

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Greens (WA) Senator Scot Ludlum Wikipedia

“It’s time we had an environment minister who stuck up for the environment.”

Senator Ludlam made the comments on the fourth anniversary of the Howard Government’s Radioactive Waste Management Act. Labor promised to repeal the Act and provide for a more transparent process for waste management, but more than half way into its first term in Government, it has yet to take action.‪

www.scottludlam.org.au

See how Indigenous people’s rights have been trampled by the Rudd Government for this “venture” here ;
http://tonyserve.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/aboriginal-women-silenced-over-uranium-mineabc-news-article-link/

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Aboriginal women ‘silenced’ over uranium mine – ABC News Article link.

So, apart from trampling the rights of land owners, using water we don’t have to spare, endangering communities and possibly arming nuclear belligerants… this mine is  GOOD DEAL – for shareholders of Quasar

Aboriginal women ‘silenced’ over mine

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Women from the Adnyamathanha Aboriginal community in South Australia‘s Flinders Ranges say they are being silenced by the company proposing to develop the Four Mile uranium mine.

The new mine will be managed by Quasar Resources and is near the existing Beverley uranium mine in the state’s north-east.
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Nuclear dump no different to a mine: Ferguson

Nuclear dump no different to a mine: Ferguson

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Friday, July 10, 2009

The federal Resources Minister, Martin Ferguson, says the Commonwealth will not be rushed into choosing a site for a low level nuclear waste storage facility.

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