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World’s biggest uranium miner gets a very bad Report

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An ‘Alternative Annual Report’ is being released in London today at BHP Billiton’s Annual General Meeting, while protesters will mark the event at the company’s offices in Melbourne and Perth.

The Alternative Annual Report documents a number of recurring problems with BHP’s operations around the world – human rights and labour abuses, relocation of communities, mistreatment of Indigenous Peoples, destruction of sacred sites, adverse impacts on food and water, climate change, use of paramilitaries, health concerns, and irresponsible tailings disposal.
These problems are evident in Australia, West Papua, Papua New Guinea the Philippines, South Africa, Canada, Colombia and Chile.

In Melbourne today, protesters will gather outside BHP Billiton’s head office in Melbourne, highlighting the impacts of BHP’s plan to make Olympic Dam the biggest uranium mine in the world. (More information: <http://londonminingnetwork.org>.)

The Alternative Annual Report can be downloaded at:
http://tinyurl.com/yjjluqg

October 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, politics international | antinuclear, indigenous, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear wastes, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

A bad report for BHP Billiton

BHP Billiton Annual General Meeting:Alternative Annual Report’ Released

An ‘Alternative Annual Report’ is being released in London today at BHP Billiton’s Annual General Meeting, Continue reading →

October 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, 2 WORLD, indigenous issues | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear spin, uranium | Leave a comment

US soldiers the victims of depleted uranium

Dave Lindorff: Pentagon Dirty Bombers: Depleted Uranium in the USA The Huffington Post October 27, 2009 “……………..The Pentagon continues a long history of claiming that DU–which is the uranium that is left after the fissionable isotope U-235 is removed to make nuclear fuel and bombs–is not dangerous, Continue reading →

October 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, USA, weapons and war | antinuclear, depleted, nuclear, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Critical build-up of plutonium in France’s nuclear plant

The French Connection: plutonium problems in France linked to Duke’s Catawba reactor & the Savannah River Site MOX plant The New Liberator Tom Clement, 28 Oct 09 “…………..a serious problem at a plutonium facility in Cadarche, France, which is under the control of the Commissariat à l’énergie atomique (CEA, French Atomic Energy Commission). This facility, the Atelier de Technologie du Plutonium (ATPu), produced plutonium fuel (MOX) and is being cleaned out and decommissioned. Due to poor accounting methods of the plutonium in the facility, it was discovered that the build-up of plutonium had reached amounts of concern for a nuclear criticality incident, which has been big news in France.

The French Connection: plutonium problems in France linked to Duke’s Catawba reactor & the Savannah River Site MOX plant « The New Liberator

October 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, France, safety | antinuclear, AREVA, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Financial problems in Bulgarian nuclear plan

German RWE withdraws from nuclear plant project in Bulgaria due to financial issues Washington Examiner Associated Press10/28/09 EDTSOFIA, BULGARIA — German utility RWE AG has announced its withdrawal from a joint nuclear plant project due to problems with its financing, Continue reading →

October 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, business and costs, EUROPE | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Russia to use nuke-powered space travel?

October 28th, 2009 Will Russia’s Next Rocket be Nuclear? Universe Today by Nancy Atkinson space “…. Russia’s agency chief is proposing to build a new spaceship with a nuclear engine. Continue reading →

October 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, business and costs, Russia | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear secrecy, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, nuclear weapons, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Nobody knows how to dispose of dead nuclear reactors

Decommissioning nuclear reactors Outside the box 28 Oct 09 In Russia, there are four nuclear reactors that exceeded their 30 years operation limit in the Baltic Region, these reactors are Chernobyl type reactors, Continue reading →

October 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, EUROPE, wastes | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Canadian anti-nuclear protest

Soggy protest Activists push for nuclear-free future at legislature

GWYNETH DUNSFORD

METRO EDMONTON

October 28, 2009 Banners hoisted high, hundreds of activists invaded the grounds of the legislature yesterday, outraged over potential nuclear energy developments.

“We don’t need nuclear,” said Adele Boucher Rymhs, the president of the Coalition for a Nuclear Free Alberta. “Nuclear is one of the problems that is going to come up in the future.

Everyone is worried about climate change and carbon dioxide emissions, but the emissions from a nuclear power plant are far worse than emissions from a coal plant. They go on for thousands of years.”

Metro – Soggy protest

October 29, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, general | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment

Worldwide indigenous organising against nuclear industry

Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum a Success Indybay by Anna Rondon Oct 27th, 2009 This past weekend Indigenous Peoples from Alaska, North America, Bolivia and Japan converged near Acoma Pueblo for the 7th Southwest Indigenous Uranium Forum in Sky City, New Mexico. Continue reading →

October 28, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, 2 WORLD, indigenous issues | antinuclear, indigenous, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radiation, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

The truth about the world’s biggest mining company

World’s biggest mining company under fire‘Alternative report’ questions environmental, human rights record of world’s biggest mining company One World.net 27 October 2009 London-based BHP Billiton plc is not a household name in Britain, but the activities of the BHP Billiton group have a massive impact on communities all around the world. Continue reading →

October 27, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, 2 WORLD, spinbuster | antinuclear, nuclear costs, uranium | Leave a comment

Uranium poisoning of the Navajo

The Forgotten Navajo: Uranium contamination —Pavement Pieces By Rachel Morgan on October 14, 2009

CHURCH ROCK, New Mexico — Teddy Nez’s home sits 500 feet from the mouth of abandoned uranium mine.

Since 1982, Nez and his family have been breathing in uranium particles and drinking uranium-contaminated water. They didn’t know the land that surrounded their home in Church Rock, N.M. – located on the 27,000 square-mile Navajo Reservation – was slowly killing them. Continue reading →

October 27, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, indigenous issues, USA | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear wastes, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

Russia’s nuclear dustbin

Toxic debt The Engineer 126 Oct 09 “……………Big four toxic dumps – The legacy of the Soviet Union’s chemical and nuclear programmeAndreeva Bay – Russia’s nuclear dustbin, home to some 22,000 spent fuel assemblies, 35 metric tonnes of radioactive materials, and 12,000m3 of solid and liquid waste taken from decommissioned vessels of the Northern FleetAtomflot – Final resting place of the Lepse (the floating Chernobyl), an abandoned supply vessel crammed with 650 damaged nuclear fuel rods …………………………..Chernobyl – Engineers are racing to complete the construction of a new shield that will cover the leaking, 20-year-old sarcophagus Chemical weapons – Russia has the largest declared stockpile of chemical weapons — more than 40,000 tonnes. Much of this is stored in artillery shells and rocket warheads

Toxic debt – The Engineer

October 27, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, Russia, wastes | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

Navajos anxiety over uranium mining

A new demand for uranium power brings concerns for Navajo groups
Mining planned at a mountain considered sacred

By Kari Lydersen

Washington Post
October 25, 2009

Indian people gathered in Acoma, N.M., for the Indigenous Uranium Forum over the weekend decried future uranium extraction, especially from nearby Mount Taylor, considered sacred by many tribes. Continue reading →

October 26, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, indigenous issues, USA | antinuclear, cancer, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear wastes, radioactive, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

Nuclear power not a good deal for Vietnam

Nuclear power and unanswered questions Vietnam Net 22/10/ 09 “The investor of the first nuclear power projects is the state power monopoly, Electricity of Vietnam (EVN).…….Tien Phong: US$12 billion is a huge amount of money, about 13 percent of the country’s current annual gross domestic product (GDP). Is it necessary to invest that money to build a nuclear power plant when Vietnam can develop hydro, thermal and wind power at cheaper cost prices?……………. Continue reading →

October 23, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | ASIA, business and costs | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, uranium, wastes | Leave a comment

nuclear – an industry in financial meltdown

Is the nuclear industry in meltdown?

October 21 2009 | Der Spiegel Politicians and electric company executives the world over are dreaming of a “nuclear renaissance”. But a spate of hitches at Olkiluoto 3, the new flagship reactor in Finland, go to show that this is not in the cards, believes Der Spiegel, whcih also doubts that modernising old nuclear power stations is a viable alternative…… Continue reading →

October 23, 2009 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, business and costs | antinuclear, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear spin, nuclear wastes, radioactive, uranium | Leave a comment