International Mining NewsDie Stadt, die es nicht gab
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- Category: Russia
- Published on Wednesday, 07 September 2016
Stalins geheime Mission - Bauen für die Atombombe
Der Fluch des Goldes und anderer Rohstoffe
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- Category: Mongolia
- Published on Monday, 18 July 2016
Für viele Mongolen bewahrheitet sich der Terminus vom "Rohstoff-Fluch". Minegolia - statt Mongolia - so freuen sich Bergbauunternehmen über die Möglichkeiten, nahezu ungehindert von Umweltauflagen oder NGOs, Gold, Kupfer und andere Rohstoffe in der Mongolei Gold abbauen zu können. AREVA will darüberhinaus Uran abbauen - Explorationsarbeiten und ein Testbergwerk haben bereits ungute Folgen nach sich gezogen.
Für Umweltschutz- und Menschenrechtsaktive ist die Situation noch viel heikler: Massive Attacken und eine skurrile Anklage.
Am 14. Juli 2016 griff die Frankfurter Rundschau die Lage in der Mongolei auf, und schildert auch den Fall des von uranium-network.org und anderen NGOs unterstützten mongolischen Umweltschützers Beejin Khastumur.
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Tanzania civil society organisations call for protection of Selous GAme Reserve, oppose uranium mine
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- Category: Tanzania
- Published on Friday, 01 July 2016
"Tanzanian civil society organisations (CSOs) working in the areas of human rights, natural resources accountability and wildlife conservation, call on the World Heritage Committee to stand in solidarity with CSOs by acting on protection of the World Heritage Site.
The nine NGOs state that " ... prospecting mining companies also substantially contribute to the ongoing endangering of wild animal populations by, amongst other things, building extensive access routes. ... the population of elephants [in World Heritage site Selous Game Reserve] has decreased from more than 70.000 (2006) to about 13.000 due to poaching, the population of the rare black rhino has diminished by 97%."
The NGOs, including WWF Tanzania, "Specifically, [...] ask that the Committee urge the Tanzanian State Party to cancel all existing mining concessions within or overlapping Selous, and to call for the re-integration of the excluded mining area into property."
WWF lanciert Unterschriftensammlung
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- Category: Africa
- Published on Friday, 01 July 2016
WWF lanciert Unterschriftensammlung zum Schutz der World Heritage site (Weltnaturerbe) Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania, das durch Uranbergbau, Explorationsaarbeiten und Dammbauten gefährdet ist. Das Wildschutz-Gebeit steht seit 2013 auf der Liste der bedrohten Weltnaturerbe-Stätten.
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NGO Conference 2016 in Istanbul
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- Category: Mining Worldwide
- Published on Friday, 01 July 2016
uranium-network.org participated in a NGO conference organized by World Heritage Watch, Berlin / Germany, on 8. and 9. July 2016 in Istanbul. World Heriage Watch aims at bringing civil society voices to the attentoin of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee (WHC); the session of UNESCO's WHC starts 10. July.
uranium-network.org made the issue of World Heritage site Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania, threatened by the development of Mkuju River Uranium Project to interantional attendance.
uranium-nework.org calls for a re-integration of the planned uranium mine site into the World Heritage protected Selous Game Reserve; a similar diceions had brought Koongarra uranium deposint in Australia under protection through World Heritage status.
Paladin Africa Sued for 'Gross Damage'
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- Category: Africa
- Published on Wednesday, 29 June 2016
A human rights body in Malawi has sued Paladin Africa Limited (PAL) for alleged grave damage the Kayelekera Uranium Mine has caused to some miners and the surrounding communities in Karonga district.
The Centre for Human Rights and Rehabilitation (CHRR) is accusing PAL of not prioritising the welfare of its employees and the communities.
Legacy Warning - Die Bedrohung. Filmvorführung am 21. März 2016
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- Category: Germany
- Published on Saturday, 19 March 2016
Eine Dokumentation über Uranabbau in Südafrika. Bei der Filmvorführung wird der mit dem Nuclearfree Futur Award ausgezeichnete Menschenrechtsaktivist Golden Misabiko dabei sein. Er lebt derzeit in Südafrika und wird über Atompläne dort und in seiner Heimat, der Demokratischen Republik Kongo, sprechen.
After the Uranium Moratorium: The global UBAN movement
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- Category: Quebec
- Published on Wednesday, 29 July 2015
Background: July 28, 2015, Gordon Edwards.
Uranium Moratorium in Quebec --> Declaration of the World Uranium Symposium --> UBAN movement
There has never been a uranium mine in the province of Quebec. In the last decade, however, there has been a great deal of uranium exploration as a result of the foolish "uranium bubble" of 2006-2007, resulting in skyrocketing uranium prices, based on rumors that a massive nuclear renaissance was about to materialize. That nuclear power "boom" never occurred, and uranium prices quickly sank back down to unprofitable levels. It has since become clear that nuclear power has stagnated and is on the decline in North America and Western Europe. It is also evident that the role of nuclear will continue to decline world-wide for the next couple of decades at least, because new reactors could not be built fast enough in such localities as Eastern Europe and Asia to make up for all the old reactors that will be shutting down in the west over the next few years.
Nunavut Impact Review Board Issues Final Hearing Report Following Review of AREVA Resources Canada Incorporated’s “Kiggavik Uranium Mine” Project
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- Category: Nunavut / Inuit Territorium
- Published on Tuesday, 12 May 2015
CAMBRIDGE BAY, NU – May 8, 2015 – The Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB or the Board) has completed its review of AREVA Resources Canada Incorporated’s (AREVA) “Kiggavik Uranium Mine” Project (the Kiggavik Project or Project) and submitted its Final Hearing Report, including recommendations, to the federal Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development and associated responsible Ministers for their review and decision.
World Uranium Symposium 2015 - birth of the Quebec Declaration
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- Category: Quebec
- Published on Saturday, 18 April 2015
The World Uranium Symposium 2015 closed with a moving speech by Matthew Coon Come and the birth of the Quebec declaration on Uranium.
Looking forward, Marriette Liefferink (FSE) and Prof. Dr. Andreas Nidecker (IPPNW Schweiz) announced a new conference taking place in Johannesburg, South Africa, November 2015. The topics will include uranium mining in Niger and the general nuclearization of Africa.
Exclusive at the World Uranium Symposium in Québec City (April 14–16 2015): Naoto Kan, Prime Minister of Japan at the time of the Fukushima catastrophe
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- Category: Quebec
- Published on Tuesday, 14 April 2015
Québec, 6 April 2015 — Mr. Naoto Kan, Prime Minister of Japan during the Fukushima catastrophe, will deliver an exclusive message at the opening of the World Uranium Symposium at the Quebec City Convention Centre on April 14-16 2015.
Both scientific and community-based, the Symposium will address issues arising from the nuclear fuel chain, from mining uranium to its end-uses and byproducts for civilian or military purposes.
Open to the public, the Symposium will host nearly 300 national and international participants from twenty countries from all continents.
World Uranium Symposium
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- Category: Quebec
- Published on Tuesday, 07 April 2015
From April 14th - 16th, the World Uranium Symposium in Quebec will bring together speakers from all around the globe. They will adress issues arising from the uranium fuel chain - from uranium mining to its end-uses and byproducts for civilian or military purposes.
The Symposium is organized by Physicians for Global Survival, the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment, Nature Québec, the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility and the Coaliation pour le Québec ait meilleure mine.
Mongolei: Polizeieinsatz für Umweltzerstörung durch Bergbau
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- Category: Mongolia
- Published on Tuesday, 24 February 2015
In der Nacht zum 24. Februar 2015 ging die mongolische Polizei gewaltsam gegen neun Hunger-streikende vor. Drei wurden (offenbar als mutmaßliche „Rädelsführer“) festgenommen, die anderen sechs gegen ihren Willen in ein Krankenhaus gebracht.