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Australia kow tows to BHP Billiton, on world’s biggest uranium hole

Christina Macpherson 11 Oct 11, 76% foreign owned, BHP Billiton made such huge profits that it’s almost an embarassment.  How to spend all that money?  Why let’s dig the world’s most gigantic toxic status symbol!

Let’s spend $20 billion of BHP’s huge profits, and untold billions of Australia’s tax-payers money –   over the long life of a dirty great mountain range of radioactive dust.   Australians will learn to pay for the carcinogenic dust that perennial dust storms will spread widely from Olympic waste mountain.  They will learn to pay for the water schemes needed, as BHP Billion plunders our artesian water – at no charge.    All Australians, not just the Aborigines, who have always been the first to be ripped off by Australian governments’ cowardly nuclear ventures.   The Menzies government started it off in the 1950s, secretly agreeing to let the British test their atomic bombs in South Australia.  Now we have a Labor government again kow-towing to a foreign multinational uranium miner, allowing it exemption from state and national laws.

October 11, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized