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Bad timing for Australia to decide to sell uranium to Middle East

“It’s very poor judgement and poor timing to be proposing to sell this material into the Middle East when tensions are running so high,” said Scott Ludlam, an Australia senator for the Greens, a party affiliated with the government’s minority administration and set to hold the balance of power in the country’s top legislature from July 1. Mr. Ludlam said he wants the government to publish a list of the countries Australia won’t supply with uranium……….

Australia Eyes U.A.E. Uranium Talks, WSJ.com, Edna Curran, 9 March 11, “…..Bilateral talks between the countries will focus on nuclear safeguards and the use of nuclear fuel for Abu Dhabi’s civilian power program due to be ready by 2017, according to a statement by the Australian government………

The supply of uranium comes at a sensitive time for planned civilian nuclear power projects in the Arab Gulf states as the wider Middle East region continues to be roiled by civil unrest and protests. The U.A.E.’s neighboring state of Oman deployed its military last week to quell protesters in the port town of Sohar, 20 miles (about 32 kilometers) from the emirates’ borders.

“It’s very poor judgement and poor timing to be proposing to sell this material into the Middle East when tensions are running so high,” said Scott Ludlam, an Australia senator for the Greens, a party affiliated with the government’s minority administration and set to hold the balance of power in the country’s top legislature from July 1. Mr. Ludlam said he wants the government to publish a list of the countries Australia won’t supply with uranium……….

March 10, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA, marketing, Uranium