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Australia: Santos fined after coal seam gas project contaminates aquifer 'with uranium'
2014-03-08 00:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The NSW government should tear up an agreement with Santos to fast-track a coal seam gas project after the energy producer was fined for contaminating an aquifer, reportedly with uranium, the state opposition says. The Environment Protection Authority issued a $1,500 fine to Santos last month following the pollution incident at the companys Narrabri Gas Field operations in the Pilliga in NSWs northwest. Fairfax Media reports that the aquifer was contaminated with uranium at levels 20 times...
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Company Struggles to Keep U.S. in the Uranium Enrichment Game
2014-01-28 02:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: While the only American-owned company that enriches uranium prepares for bankruptcy, its competitor is zooming ahead with construction of what it describes as a cluster of far more economical and efficient new centrifuges. Urenco, a German-Dutch-British consortium that began producing here in 2010, is on its way to doubling its size, and is apparently competing successfully even as the market for its product shrinks because of reactor shutdowns in Japan and elsewhere after the Fukushima Daiichi...
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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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Iran curbs uranium enrichment
2014-01-20 11:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: Iran has begun curbing uranium enrichment under a deal which will also see international sanctions eased, the UN nuclear watchdog (IAEA) says. Earlier, centrifuges used for enrichment were disconnected at the Nantaz plant, Iranian TV reported. The move is part of a nuclear deal reached with the US, Russia, China and European powers last November. By the end of the day, Iran should be able to resume petrochemical and other exports, worth billions to its economy. 'Melting' "The IAEA...
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Mega Uranium Ltd. Acquires Securities of Bayswater Uranium Corporation
2014-01-18 23:44:56| Automakers - Topix.net
These transactions were made for investment purposes and Mega could increase or decrease their investment in Bayswater depending on market conditions or any other relevant factor.
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