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Worlds Poorest Suffer From Radioactive Sickness as Areva Mines for Uranium

2014-01-24 22:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: More than 60 percent of Niger`s population lives on less than $1 per day, and even more have no electricity. Still, French company Areva keeps contaminating those residents and their environment while mining away for uranium--one of the few resources the world`s poorest country still has. Areva has operated in northern Niger for four decades, according to Keith Slack, the global program manager of Oxfam America`s Extractive Industries team. The French government owns about 80 percent of the...

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