So at last Freddie Ingram comes to his senses and supports uranium mining?
Did you notice that he did this one day after voting in favor of banning uranium mining within 25 miles of the Mega-Park-a distance that includes Coles Hill?
Still, it’s wonderful that Mr. Ingram understands the potential benefits of this billion-dollar project if it [...]
- The first Mining Lease granted for a uranium project since the ban on uranium mining in Western Australia was removed in November 2008.
- Mega to progress its Definitive Feasibility Studies and test work activities on the site.
TORONTO, ONTARIO–(Marketwire - Oct. 19, 2009) - Mega Uranium Ltd. (TSX:MGA) (”Mega”) is pleased to report that the [...]
GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz.— The Center for Biological Diversity, Grand Canyon Trust, and Sierra Club today filed a 60-day notice of intent to sue the Bureau of Land Management over Endangered Species Act violations connected to Grand Canyon uranium mining. The Bureau has failed to consult with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on [...]
Local representatives of Clean Water Action are expected to be on hand today as the Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety holds its first stakeholders meeting on new rules for uranium mining.
The rule-making process is mandated by legislation passed by the Colorado General Assembly in 2008. Also passed that year was a bill requiring [...]
Property owners in Haliburton and Muskoka are pressing the Ontario government to ban uranium exploration and mining in cottage country.
They say they’re concerned their health, peace and tranquillity will be compromised by prospecting and exploration.
Prospectors looking for uranium have staked claims to 3,600 hectares of land in the area.
Suzanne Lauten has a cottage on Gull [...]
By John Crane
Published: April 28, 2009
Approximately 200 people turned out Tuesday to hear the three contenders for the Democratic nomination for governor — Creigh Deeds, Brian Moran and Terry McAuliffe — in a forum at the Institute for Advanced Learning & Research.
The Sorensen Institute for Political Leadership at the University of Virginia and the Danville [...]
By MIKE SACCONE
As state lawmakers debate how to balance the development of natural gas and cleaner renewable energy resources, one Eastern Plains leader wants to steer the conversation toward nuclear power.
In an effort to foster the nuclear debate, Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Yuma, said he plans to run legislation later this year to create a nuclear [...]
FOREIGN investors are driving up the value of Australian uranium stocks amid increased world demand for nuclear power.
As spot prices of dirty greenhouse fuels such as oil and coal fell dramatically in December, uranium prices rallied to six-month highs.
The rollout of fourth generation nuclear power stations in China, India and Europe has placed a floor [...]
The Western Australian Greens will move an urgency motion in the Upper House later today, calling on the Government to immediately reinstate the ban on uranium mining in Western Australia .
Premier Colin Barnett announced the ban had been formally lifted last week, and that mining leases would no longer contain a clause excluding uranium mining.
Greens [...]
By Tonette Orejas
Philippine Daily Inquirer
CITY OF SAN FERNANDO—The environmental group Greenpeace has opposed a proposal in the Senate to re-commission the mothballed Bataan Nuclear Power Plant (BNPP) in Morong, Bataan, urging the senators to push instead for the use of renewable sources to ensure energy security.
Lea Guerrero, Greenpeace media campaigner in Southeast Asia, Sunday said [...]
