German DVD blows the whistle on Australia’s Olympic Dam uranium mine
The DVD specializes in the truth of BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam (Roxby) uranium mine in northern South Australia–the world’s greatest uranium deposit.
The Reality About The Largest Uranium Mine in Australia, Bukisa, Oct 25th, 2010 by scotmxncmo
Following the 1986 Chernobyl crisis the nuclear industry was once at the ropes. Discredited, grimy, pricey and with no method to its rising stockpiles of prime degree radioactive waste, the business shared the credibility cellar with the tobacco lobby.And then got here the lifestyles raft of worldwide warming. The nuclear business discovered new words to explain itself, located itself because the lesser of two evils, spent closely on PR and suddenly Robert’s your radioactive relative and new-build nuclear energy is again in contention.
On this context Nuking the Local weather Initiative, a group of young German filmmakers, launched into a journey in 2008 to find the affects of the place this industry starts: uranium mining.
The DVD specializes in the truth of BHP Billiton’s Olympic Dam (Roxby) uranium mine in northern South Australia–the world’s greatest uranium deposit. Through smartly-crafted cinematography and dialogue with Aboriginal Traditional Owners, trade representatives and environmentalists, a picture emerges of unsustainable water use, native pollution events and big mounds of radioactive mine tailings.
It is not a lovely picture however you will need to assist counter-balance the glossy PR of the arena’s biggest mining corporate and one of the most globe’s most toxic trades. Because the DVD tracks the distances from the place the uranium is sourced to the place it is used we’re reminded of the connectedness of our fragile globe and the stark lesson of Chernobyl: radioactive pollution does no longer desire a passport to travel.
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So far, the nuclear lobby has bought the hearts and minds of governments, but has not won the hearts and minds of the people. In a propaganda war, as in all wars, truth is the first victim. But there are many journalists and others out there who will counter the lies of the nuclear industry.
Today, across the world, the nuclear industry is unpopular. It is particularly unpopular with women, and with indigenous peoples. It’s unpopular with those who have suffered from it, such as the veterans who attended nuclear bomb tests, and the ‘downwinders’ who suffered from those same tests. It’s unpopular with families afflicted with cancer from uranium mining. It’s unpopular with Ukrainians and Japanese whose lives have been disrupted by nuclear disasters.
he nuclear industry is also unpopular higher up in the social food chain. Many academics, economists, scientists, and doctors are concerned about the dangers of all kinds that are intrinsic to the nuclear industry.
So who does like the nuclear industry? – careerists in the nuclear industry, careerists in politics, academia, careerists in the Murdoch media, highly paid uranium workers, communities that exist only because of mining, – (the latter can’t really afford not to support it).
The nuclear industry, following in the footsteps of the tobacco and asbestos industries will now blanket its servant mass media, and any other possible avenues – such as education, and politics, – with propaganda.
The main focus of the nuclear lobby’s propaganda? This will now be CLIMATE ACTION .
They’re spending an awful lot of money on this. Despite this huge investment in deception, the nuclear lobby is not winning.
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