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Australian Frustration Over Nuclear Energy

Leslie Kemeny at the Canberra Times notes that Australia is badly lagging the G8 in its refusal to consider nuclear energy for its energy needs : Don Argus, chairman of BHP Billiton [which deals in coal and petroleum among other things; we thought it might include uranium in its portfolio, but no], exhorted...

Posted to Nuclear Energy Institute (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-15-2008
New government heralds WA uranium boom

Following a change of state government, Western Australia has ended its de facto ban on mining uranium. The issue of uranium mining had been a key issue in the recent election.

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-15-2008
WA rejects anti-uranium government

The final result may not be known until later this week, but the result of the Western Australian election on Saturday has rebuffed the incumbent government.

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-08-2008
Uranium ban becomes sovereign risk issue

Leading up to a state election in Western Australia, the Labor premier, Alan Carpenter, has said that if re-elected on 6 September the government will legislate to ban uranium mining. The 'bewildering' u-turn is said to jeapordise the state's economic outlook.

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-01-2008
Australia's Big Coal Ad Against Nuclear Power

Rod Adams received this ad from a fellow blogger the other day and posted about it . It is a very straightforward effort by the coal industry to scare people about nuclear power - not really so much about the typical aspects of nuclear power that some try to use to instill fear, but the threat that nuclear...

Posted to Nuclear Energy Institute (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-28-2008
Coal power to abort the nuclear industry?

Australia's Construction Forestry Mining Energy Union thinks residents of Queensland would rather work in a coal mine than a nuclear power plant. The union's mining division has begun an advertising campaign featuring glum-looking miners and the slogan, "Nuclear power will kill the coal...

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-27-2008
Better than a smoking gun - straightforward ad against nuclear power from coal industry in AU

I have some very engaged readers. Some of you even follow up if you send something interesting and I do not get around to sharing it with all of you. Daniel sent me a scan of an advertisement that appeared in the Courier-Mail out of Queensland, Australia in November 2007. it is a very straightforward...

Posted to Atomic Insights (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-26-2008
Australian uranium deposit sale completed

Cameco and Mitsubishi have completed their joint acquisition of the Kintyre uranium deposit in Western Australia from Rio Tinto for $495 million. Canadian uranium miner Cameco now has a 70% interest in the deposit, with Mitsubishi Development Pty, an Australian subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corp, holding...

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-12-2008
Resource boost at Namibian deposit

Bannerman Resources, based in Perth, Western Australia, has announced a fivefold boost in indicated resources at its Goanikontes deposit in Namibia. The overall resource estimate increased by 48%.

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-11-2008
Cameco and Mitsubishi buy major Australian deposit

Following a bidding process, the Kintyre uranium deposit in Western Australia - potentially ready for development - has been bought from Rio Tinto by a Cameco (70%) and Mitsubishi (30%) joint venture for $495 million.

Posted to World Nuclear News (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-10-2008

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