The Road To A Nuclear Free Future For WA

The report considers to legacy of uranium exploration in WA over the last decade with over 85 exploration project many of which no longer have an active holder. It also considers the advanced exploration at four proposed uranium mines – Wiluna, Yeelirrie, Kintyre and Mulga Rock. The report documents the status and imminent expiry of conditional environmental approvals for the four sites they legacy of exploration at those sites and the future threats. The report recommends that all exploration and trial mines sites be rehabilitated, that no environmental approval extensions be granted and that the government legislate a prohibition on uranium mining to avoid future threats from the industry.

Greenland Minerals fails community test over controversial rare earths and uranium mine plan

MPI Board Members are attending the Greenland Minerals Limited AGM today to address the serious lack of social license the company has for the proposed Kvanefjeld rare earths and uranium mine near the Kujataa UNESCO World Heritage area and just a few kilometres from the Narsaq community.

The story of Rum Jungle: a Cold War-era uranium mine that’s spewed acid into the environment for decades

MPI Chairperson Associate Professor Gavin Mudd writes about the legacy of the Rum Jungle uranium mine in the NT, closed over 50 years ago and about to undergo another attempt at rehabilitation .

Closing Ranger – Protecting Kakadu

Our joint review of the 2020 Ranger Mine Closure Plan (RMCP) identifies some key issues and barriers to achieving the environmental requirements and objectives at Ranger. In raising these issues we seek to improve the prospects for achieving a rehabilitated Ranger site that can be incorporated into Kakadu National Park.

Submission to the Productivity
Commission in response to the Draft Report on Resource Sector Regulation.

The Mineral Policy Institute’s submission to the Productivity Commission urges tougher resource-sector regulation: genuine Indigenous Free, Prior and Informed Consent, stronger heritage and environmental protections, fairer local and Aboriginal economic benefits, less FIFO reliance, and “polluter pays” mine closure obligations. It supports independent national assessment, appeal rights, and retaining the EPBC uranium trigger.

Joint ENGO Submission on Nuclear Issues as they relate to the Environmental Protection &
Biodiversity Conservation Act Review 2020

A coalition of environment NGOs urges the EPBC Act review to keep the nuclear power ban (s140A) and the uranium “nuclear actions” trigger. It calls for banning uranium mining/milling, stronger federal oversight, a national EPA, tighter mine-closure rules, and mandatory Indigenous free, prior and informed consent.