PROCESS AND RESULTS OF URANIUM MINING
Uranium is the heaviest, naturally occurring metal and
contains the highest level of toxicity in the forms of the tailings
waste and raydon gas as a result of it's processing. 85% of the uranium
oxide tailings waste is radioactive for over 250,000 years and spreads
off site by wind and rain erosion travelling into waterways and the
surrounding environment. It is stored in dams and leaks into the water
table, hence spreading indefinitely. Because Kakadu is a monsoon area,
the rainfall on the mine site carries with it particles of uranium dust.
Radon gas is the daughter product of Uranium and is the principle cause
of cancer in miners. These are only the immediate effects. Further down
the industrial process there are more and more concentrated effects.
The use of depleted uranium in Iraq maybe the cause of a high percentage
of childhood leukemias now occuring there. It is expected that Kosovo
will suffer the same fate. Time reveals yet more ill-effects. The use
of depleted uranium in artillery is effectively a form of nuclear weaponry.
It is highly likely that Australian uranium has ended up on the nuclear
sacrifice zones of Iraq and Kosovo. Beyond its relatively few and less
significant other uses, there are no justifiable, humane or ethical
reasons for the use of uranium to empower war industries and their obvious
threat to human existence and the future of our ecology.
COMPANIES AND INVESTORS
TO LOBBY (click here)
RESOURCE LINKS :
- Aust Anti-Bases Campaign:
PO Box A899, Sydney South, NSW 1235
Ph. +61 (0)2 9517 9425
- Aust Conservation
Foundation:
340 Gore st, Fitzroy, VIC 3065
Ph. +61 (0)3 9416 1166
- Aust Committee for the IUCN (World Conservation Union):
GPO Box 528, Sydney, NSW 2001
Ph. +61 (0)2 9299 6366
Email: aciucn@ozemail.com.au
- Aust Council of National Trusts:
PO Box 1002 Civic Square, NSW 2608
Ph. +61 (0)2 6247 6766
Email: acnt@spirit.com.au
- Aust National Parks Council:
GPO Box 2227, Canberra, ACT 2601
Ph. +61 (0)2 6282 5813
- Campaign for International Cooperation and Disarmament:
GPO Box 114A, Melbourne,VIC 3001
Ph. +61 (0)3 9663 3677
- Community Aid Abroad
156 George st, Fitzroy, VIC 3065
Ph. +61 (0)3 9289 9444
Email: enquiry@caa.org.au
- Friends of the Earth Australia:
PO Box 222, Fitzroy, VIC 3065
Ph. +61 (0)3 9419 8700
Email: foefitzroy@peg.apc.org
- Jabiluka Action Group:
PO Box 2074, Fitzroy,VIC 3065
Ph. +61 (0)3 9417 6660
Email: office@vic.jag.org.au
- Greenpeace Australia:
GPO Box 3307, Sydney,NSW 2001
Ph. +61 (0)2 9261 4666
Email: Greenpeace@australia.au
- Northern Territory Environment Centre:
GPO Box 2120, Darwin, NT 0801
Ph. +61 (0)8 8981 1984
Email: ecnt@taunet.net.au
- Wilderness Society National
Campaign Administration:
PO Box 188, Civic Square, NSW 2608
Ph. +61 (0)2 6249 6491
Email: campaign@wilderness.org.au
WEB LINKS:
www.mirrar.net
www.acfonline.org.au
www.savekakadu.org (support
from Japan)
Stop Jabiluka! (by Gundjehmi) www.green.net.au/gundjehmi/
THE SUSTAINABLE ENERGY and ANTI-URANIUM SERVICE home.vicnet.net.au/~seaus
STOP THE JABILUKA URANIUM MINE IN KAKADU www.jabiluka.net/
Stop Uranium Mining!
itak.ag.saga-u.ac.jp/jabiluka.html
Information of the movie of Jabiluka. (Japanese only) nnafj.kmis.co.jp/japanese/jabiluka/index.htm
About the World Heritage Committee The 22nd Session of the World Heritage
Committee, Kyoto, Japan (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) www.mofa.go.jp/policy/culture/index.html
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