Environmental Ethics: The Mirrar Clan Confronts the ...

Uranium mining has operated on Mirarr land for more than 25 years. Mirarr opposed the establishment of uranium mining on their lands, and continue to oppose further development of both the Ranger and Jabiluka uranium mines. Many Mirarr do not read or write. Mirarr established Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation, an incorporated body, to assist ...

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Ranger uranium mine agreement updated - mirarr.net

The Mirarr traditional Aboriginal owners of the Ranger uranium mine area welcome the. settlement today of the long-running renegotiation of the 1978 Ranger mining agreement. The execution today of a number of agreements and associated correspondence between. the Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation (GAC), the Australian Government, miner Energy.

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Uranium Mine Ownership - Saskatchewan, Canada

Mineral Deposit Info: Cigar Lake. 57% of the Cigar Lake ore is to be milled at the Rabbit Lake mill. The remainder is to be milled at McClean Lake . Cigar Lake Mining Corp - CLMC. 50.025% - CAMECO. 37.1% - AREVA Resources Canada Inc. 7.875% - Idemitsu Uranium Exploration Canada Ltd. 5% - Tepco Resources Inc.

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What climate change activists can learn from First Nations ...

In the late 1990s, a mining company, Energy Resources of Australia, was planning to expand its Kakadu uranium mine into Jabiluka, land belonging to Mirarr Traditional Owners in …

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Dirt Cheap 30 Years On; Uranium Mining on Aboriginal ...

3 Dirt Cheap 30 Years On; Uranium Mining on Aboriginal Territory in Kakadu Dirt Cheap 30 Years on. Dirt Cheap 30 years on: the story of uranium mining in Kakadu ... the bias held by the mining officials and coercive power relations used by the Australian government to oppress the Mirarr people's opposition to mining on their land. This ...

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Sir Peter Maxwell Davies – He Saved Orkney from Uranium ...

First performed on 21 June 1980, Stromness Hotel, Stromness, Orkney (at the St. Magnus Festival) Eleanor Bron voice, Peter Maxwell Davies piano.. Composer's Note: "The Yellow Cake Revue takes it name from the popular term for refined uranium ore, and concerns the threat of the proposed uranium mining to the economy and ecology of the Orkney Islands which islanders are …

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Found – historic film of Aboriginal resistance to uranium ...

"Mirarr people got major support from around Australia, from around the whole nation," Mr Nabanardi-Mudjandi said. Next stage of uranium mining looms. In the decades since the film's release, uranium has been mined at Kakadu, but the Ranger mine is now expected to wind up in 2021.

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Ranger Uranium Mine and the Mirarr (Part 1), 1970–2000 ...

The Mirarr struggle against uranium mining on their ancestral lands commenced in the 1970s, when the Australian government disregarded Mirarr opposition to the development of the Ranger mine and ...

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Dirt Cheap 30 years on: the story of uranium mining in ...

Dirt Cheap 30 years on includes rare footage of Mirarr Senior Traditional Owner Toby Gangale stating clear opposition to mining on his country and documents his prescient concerns about uranium. It shows how the …

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Mirarr People want massive uranium deposit brought into ...

The Mirarr People have renewed their opposition to the multibillion-dollar Jabiluka uranium deposit in Australia's Northern territory, declaring their wish, in solidarity with the people of Japan, to include the deposit as part of the UNESCO world heritage-listed Kakadu National Park.. In a recent letter to UN Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon (PDF), Mirarr Elder Yvonne Margarula lamented …

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URANIUM MINING IN AUSTRALIA

$150,000 — a rare example of a uranium mining company being prosecuted for breaching operating conditions. Yvonne Margarula, Mirarr Senior Traditional Owner, wrote in a 2005 submission to a parliamentary uranium inquiry: "Along with other Aboriginal people the Mirarr opposed uranium mining when the Government approached us in the 1970s.

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Uranium mining and First Peoples: the nuclear renaissance ...

The Mirarr claim (Katona, 2001, Margarula, 2005) that they have experienced severe negative social and cultural impacts as a consequence of the Ranger mine, and the community's campaign against Ranger and the proposed development of the adjacent Jabiluka uranium deposit in the mid-1990s became a focal point for national and international anti ...

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Uranium mining and Aborigines – Milenapetrofig's Blog

A royal connection to Gough Whitlam's dismissal in 1975 has long been alleged but remains unproven. National Archives Of Australia. This paper is an examination of the impact of uranium mining on Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory. Two of the three mines which have operated under Australia's recent uranium mining regime were in the…

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Jabiluka Fight for Country - The Commons

Jabiluka, also on Mirarr land, is one of the world's largest known undeveloped uranium deposits. In 2005 the Mirarr succeeded in halting the development of the proposed Jabiluka mine by securing the agreement of the mining company and authorities that no mining can commence without the written consent of the current generation of Mirarr.

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Ranger Uranium Mine and the Mirarr (Part 1), 1970–2000 ...

The Mirarr struggle against uranium mining on their ancestral lands commenced in the 1970s, when the Australian government disregarded Mirarr opposition to the development of the Ranger mine and exempted the community from exercising rights granted to First Peoples under the Aboriginal Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act 1976.This paved the way for construction of Ranger and the adjacent town ...

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Ranger uranium mine is dead: a victory for the Mirarr ...

"The Mirarr Traditional Owners welcome the conclusion today of uranium mining on their country with the end of processing at the Ranger Uranium Mine adjacent to Kakadu National Park. The ending of active operations comes some 40 years after the Commonwealth government, which originally owned 50% of the mine, imposed uranium mining on traditional owners."

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The Mirarr Clan Conflict on Ethics vs. Economics | ecomsamara

The Mirarr depend on this specific land for food and water, and with these resources contaminated their health could be put in danger. They have already witnessed the damage that uranium mining caused to the land at the Ranger Mine and seek to prevent this from happening again. Finally, mining has a domino effect on the ecosystem of the landscape.

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Uranium mining in Kakadu National Park, Australia | EJAtlas

The possibility of uranium from Mirarr land being incorporated into a nuclear weapon or present at the site of a nuclear accident is therefore of enormous concern to Mirarr. Despite assurances from successive Federal Governments that Australian uranium is only sold for nuclear power, the fact remains that is impossible to guarantee Australian ...

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A History of Duress - Uranium Mining on Mirarr Land ...

Introduction. In the late 1970s and early 1980s agreements for four uranium projects were entered into by the Northern Land Council on behalf of traditional Aboriginal land owners. These were Ranger, Nabarlek, Jabiluka and Koongarra. Ranger is still operational and is presently expanding its mining and milling operations.

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Uranium mining in Kakadu National Park, Australia | EJAtlas

Dirt Cheap 30 years on - on the struggle of Mirarr Senior Traditional Owner Toby Gangale - who opposed plans for uranium exploration and mining on his country in the 1970s and the ongoing uranium mining conflicts in Kakadu [click to view]

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Mirarr – The Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation

The Mirarr estate extends beyond Kakadu to Western Arnhem Land and also includes the Ranger uranium mine, the Jabiluka mineral lease and the mining town of Jabiru. Map of Kakadu showing township of Jabiru, Ranger Uranium Mine, Jabiluka Mineral Lease and location within Australia. Mirarr speak an average of three Aboriginal languages plus English.

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Uranium mines harm Indigenous people – so why have we ...

Uranium mines across Australia have similar legacies, with decades of activism from the Mirarr people against the Ranger and Jabiluka mine sites in …

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Uranium Mining - Mirarr

Uranium mining was imposed on the Mirarr in the late 1970s and people would still prefer it had never come to their country. Senior Traditional Owner Yvonne Margarula says that with mining: "The promises never last but the problems always do". To convey a sense of the Mirarr's experience of imposed uranium mining, Gundjeihmi - in partnership ...

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Jabiluka - Wikipedia

Jabiluka is a pair of uranium deposits and mine development in the Northern Territory of Australia that was to have been built on land belonging to the Mirarr clan of Aboriginal people.The mine site is surrounded by, but not part of, the World Heritage–listed Kakadu National Park.

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Mirrarr people to lead the Kakadu region's transition from ...

Mirrarr people to lead the Kakadu region's transition from uranium mining. Kirsten Blair, Community and International Liaison, 15 Aug 19, Gundjeihmi Aboriginal CorporationToday GAC chairwoman, Toby's Gangale's daughter: Valerie Balmoore signed an MOU with the Federal and NT Governments as well as mining company ERA committing all parties to a Mirarr-led post-mining …

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Energy for whom? Uranium mining, Indigenous people, and ...

However, as the historical example of the relationship between one uranium company, Energy Resources of Australia (ERA), and Mirarr Traditional Owners attests, some First Peoples' views on, and experiences of, uranium mining—and industrialisation generally—have been negative, with Mirarr enduring unwanted social impacts and the company ...

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The Mirrar Clan oppose to the Jabiluka Uranium Mine | danae198

In recent years the Mirrar have fought against the proposed development of a second uranium mine near the Jabiluka. The most serious concern of Mirrar is the destruction of country and the decline of traditional culture which will result from continued mining on Mirarr land.

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Ranger uranium mine and the Mirarr (Part 2), 2000–2014: 'A ...

In the company's 2013 Annual Report, ERA chairman Peter McMahon acknowledged a strained relationship, stating, 'the incident re-awakened latent opposition to uranium mining at Ranger, and it has at least interrupted the developing trust between ERA and its community stakeholders, including representatives of the Mirarr people' .

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The long and controversial history of uranium mining in ...

Australia has about one third of the world's known uranium resources and mining goes back to 1906, when a small amount of uranium ore was …

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URANIUM EXPLORATION - Saskatchewan - Canadian Mining …

URANIUM CITY RESOURCES has reported initial drill results from its East target in the Uranium City Mining District. One shallow hole, drilled to a depth of 113 m, returned 0.054% U3O8 over 1.0 m, 0.051% over 6.0 m, 0.322% over 4.0 m and 0.098% over 3.0 m between 25.0 and 72 m below surface. Two other holes also hit mineralization.

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