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Dirty work - thirsty work - risky work PDF Print E-mail
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Dirty work: environmental impacts of uranium mining
Uranium industry advocates spend large amounts of time and money promoting the sector as low impact but uranium mining is a highly contested and contaminating industrial process that causes severe environmental degradation and is directly linked to the production of some of the world’s dirtiest wastes and the proliferation of the world’s worst weapons.  
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Thirsty work: uranium mining turns water into liquid waste
Unsustainable water consumption, and the pollution of water resources, are common features of uranium mining and are evident at all three operating mines in Australia - Olympic Dam and Beverley in South Australia, and Ranger in the Northern Territory.  
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Risky business: turning Australia into a nuclear waste dump
Environmental and public health problems don’t end at the mine sites. Australian uranium is destined to become high-level nuclear waste in nuclear power reactors around the world, yet there is still not a single site anywhere in the world for the disposal of high-level nuclear waste. As we export more there is concern that there will be growing pressure for Australia to be the potential nuclear waste dump of the world. 
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Friday 26th March 2010 Funk for 'Da Fish
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Sandcastles for Sanctuaries Event – Competition!
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CCWA General Meeting
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