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Uranium miner expands its workforce – 27/01/2009

Uranium miner expands its workforce ABC Rural News 27/01/2009

Mining company, Uranium One, has started the recruitment process for its Honeymoon project, and will expand its workforce by about 120 people by the end of the year.

A $104 million joint investment deal with Japanese company Mitsui, announced last week, means Uranium One can start hiring for its initial construction phase.

The mine, 75 kilometres west of Broken Hill, begins production in 2010……………………..

Meanwhile, an anti-nuclear campaigner claims the joint venture with Uranium One could be putting Mitsui’s reputation at risk.

Australian Conservation Foundation Nuclear Free campaigner, David Noonan, says the on-site leaching techniques to be used at Honeymoon are environmentally unsound, and could put Mitsui in poor standing.

“They may be unaware of the very substantial reputational damage that they could suffer, as a major Japanese trading company, by becoming involved in acid in-situ leaching in Australia and the proposed discharge of mine waste to groundwater in the remote outback, without any required rehabilitation of their mining impacts on our environment.”

Uranium miner expands its workforce – 27/01/2009

January 28, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized