Mining and nuclear
BBC News
A plan to have a central nuclear stockpile overseen by the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), originally formulated by President Eisenhower following WW2, has been revived. Under the plan, stockpiles are created for developing countries planning to use nuclear power in the near future to divert them from Iran’s path and the possibility they might enrich their own uranium. Adhering to IAEA regulations, nuclear fuel supplies are guaranteed regardless of the applicant country’s politics or human rights record.
posted by ruby on January 18, 2010 at 1:05 pm · filed under 
ABC News
Israeli police have again arrested nuclear whistleblower Mordechai Vanunu for violating a ban which prohbits him discussing his former work at Israel’s Dimona nuclear reactor. Vanunu has already served multiple jail terms as a traitor for discussing the nuclear reactor with foreign press. Vanunu says that he poses no security threat to the Israeli government, and that he want to pursue his anti-nuclear activities abroad.
posted by ruby on December 30, 2009 at 2:54 pm · filed under
ABC News
Dramatic dust storms hitting Sydney this week have raised concerns that radioactive dust from BHP Billiton’s planned Olympic Dam mine expansion could pose a serious threat to the city’s population.
posted by seamas on September 26, 2009 at 7:45 am · filed under 
The Age
Australia’s largest ever resource deal, the Gorgon LNG project on Barrow Island, off the Western Australian coast, cleared it’s final hurdle today when the Federal Environment Minister, Peter Garret, approved the project. The project, a joint venture between Shell, Chevron and ExxonMobil has a contract to sell $50Bn worth of gas to China’s state owned PetroChina.
Barrow Island is home to much endangered fauna , rare and endemic , including the Barrow Island Mouse, the Spectacled Hare-Wallaby, the Golden Bandicoot and the threatened Flatback Turtle.
posted by Vinnie on August 26, 2009 at 3:53 pm · filed under 
The Age
Outspoken Queensland National Party Senator, Barnaby Joyce, has lashed out at coalition leader, Malcolm Turnbull, pledging his allegiance solely to the leader of the National Party, Warren Truss at the sacrifice of Turnbull. Joyce, speaking at the Nationals’ Federal Council Meeting, has also vowed to dismatle any ETS the coalition inherits and has put Nuclear power back at the center of the climate debate.
posted by Vinnie on August 24, 2009 at 2:20 pm · filed under 
Australian Greens
The Greens are asking how a $50 billion deal to supply China with gas to be drilled off the northwest coast of Australia was endorsed by the Government without any environmental approval. Greens senator Rachel Siewert says the ecological importance of the area, especially Barrow Island, cannot be simply ignored.
The Greens have also suggested that the massive Gorgon gas deal represents a $3 billion carbon risk for Australian taxpayers because an agreement with the field’s developers (Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell) indemnifies them against liability for leakage of any stored carbon.
posted by seamas on August 19, 2009 at 8:47 pm · filed under 
ABC News
A compromise between the Federal Government and Opposition has allowed the Lower House of Parliament to pass a Renewable Energy Target Bill that sets a 20 per cent target for renewable energy in Australia’s overall power generation picture, within the next decade.
One of the key concessions made by the Government was agreeing to count so called ‘waste gas’ created from coal mining in the renewable quota. The Australian Greens have pointed out that this gas is not a renewable source of energy.
posted by seamas on August 18, 2009 at 7:14 am · filed under
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