The Australian Greens have called on the Berejiklian Government to reject the Mark Latham-led push for uranium mining in NSW.
\n“The Liberals should stop dancing to One Nation’s tune and reject the push for uranium mining in NSW,” said Greens Leader, Adam Bandt.
\n\u201cThe case for lifting the ban on uranium mining in NSW didn\u2019t stand up to 5 minutes of scrutiny from Fran Kelly this morning. NSW Minerals Council CEO, Stephen Galilee, had no answer to basic economic questions.”
\n\u201cWhen it comes to uranium mining, the big issues are environmental, but the economics don’t stack up either. Extraction is emissions intensive, local land and water impacts are incredibly risky and waste products are a shameful legacy.
\n\u201cThe economics should be the final nail in the coffin for uranium, even for those who have no concern for the environment. Global prices remain very low, years after the Fukushima disaster. Adding more uranium to an oversupplied market would only push that price lower, which would probably not be welcomed by other Australian miners.
\n\u201cThe reason the price is dropping is that nuclear power is the most expensive and inflexible energy source there is. Country after country is getting out of nuclear and investing in renewables. That\u2019s the future and state and federal governments need to face the facts.
\n\u201cNSW should reject this push and Australia should get out of uranium altogether,\u201d Bandt said.
\nGreens nuclear disarmament spokesperson, Senator Jordon Steele-John said:
\n\u201cAustralia has a nuclear history; from the atomic testing on behalf of the British Government at Maralinga that displaced our First Nations Peoples, to the ongoing mining at Ranger in the Northern Territory, and Olympic Dam and Beverley in South Australia.
\n\u201cWe have played, and continue to play, a role in the global nuclear chain and that is not something to be proud of.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s time for us to get out of uranium all together; it\u2019s time for us to sign the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and strive for peace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Australian Greens have called on the Berejiklian Government to reject the Mark Latham-led push for uranium mining in NSW. “The Liberals should stop dancing to One Nation’s tune and reject the push for uranium mining in NSW,” said Greens Leader, Adam Bandt. \u201cThe case for lifting the ban on uranium mining in NSW didn\u2019t … Continue reading “LIBS DANCING TO LATHAM\u2019S TOXIC URANIUM TUNE”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}