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Justice in India is fragile when it comes to the topic of anti-uranium protesting. Saiku Chaki, a senior activist and Ex UCIL-employee, was murdered in his home in the UCIL Turamidh colony. The police filed a case against 25 named and 300 unnamed persons for assembling at the police station when the body was taken…
read moreAccording to a report from Vox magazine, global use of nuclear power is decreasing since the Fukushima incident. Only 31 countries are still operating nuclear power plants.
read moreSome of the work at Cigar Lake uranium mine in Saskatchewan is on halt, because the freezing technique used to keep the water out of the mining area is not giving the desired results. Source: Globalnews.
read moreThis is a transcript of the speech held by Grand Chief Dr. Matthew Coon Come in front of the BAPE commission in Montreal on the topic of uranium exploitation in Cree territory.
read moreIn der Fairtrade-Szene kursiert ein afrikanisches Sprichwort: „Wenn viele kleine Leute an vielen kleinen Orten viele kleine Dinge tun, können sie das Gesicht der Welt verändern.“ Eine schöne Botschaft, die allen Mut macht, die angesichts der täglichen Katastrophenmeldungen aus aller Welt das Gefühl haben, bei sich vor der Haustür sowieso nichts ändern zu können. …
read moreAtomkraftgegnerInnen aus dem Münsterland und dem westlichen Niedersachsen demonstrierten heute Vormittag vor der Urananreicherungsanlage (UAA) im westfälischen Gronau gegen die drohende Inbetriebnahme des neuen Uranmüll-Dauerlagers. In Gronau sollen 60 000 Tonnen Uranoxid zeitlich unbefristet gelagert werden.
read moreOn monday, Almoustapha Alhacen and social activists visited Münster, talking about uranium exploitation and the consequences in Niger. He then visited Urenco’s uranium enrichment plant in Gronau, Northwest Germany. Urenco is allowed to store up to 60.000 tons (!) of depleted uranium here. The storage area is simply the hangar in the background. BIG thank…
read more(OENZ study from 2011) “25 years after the catastrophe of Tshernobyl and only months after the nuclear meltdown of Fukushima, nuclear energy is a growing market. Even as protests against nuclear energy rise worldwide, several hundred nuclear power plants are planned to be built in the next decade. Today the risks of nuclear power technology…
read moreThe Strateco company has called the quits on the Matoush project. The company says this decision is due to Quebec government’s refusal to issue the final permit for advanced exploration. “The damages arising from the liquidation of the Matoush camp and any cost associated with reopening the camp in the future add to the damages…
read moreDienstag 24. Juni – LINGEN – Ort und Uhrzeit stehen noch nicht fest
read moreBericht aus Niger: Uranabbau und die Folgen, WANN:23. Juni 2014, 19:30 Uhr WO:VHS-Forum-2, Aegidiimarkt 2, Münster veranstaltet von: SofA Münster, Greenpeace Münster, Eine-Welt-Forum Münster und VHS Münster siehe auch: sofa-ms.de
read moreFlyer zur Veranstaltung (PDF) WANN:26. Juni 2014, 18 Uhr WO:Afrika-Haus, Bochumer Straße 25, 10555 Berlin Eine gemeinsame Veranstaltung der Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung und Menschenrechte 3000. Die nigrische Organisation Aghirin’man engagiert sich seit 2000 gegen die negativen Auswirkungen des Uranabbaus. Almoustapha Alhacen von Aghirin‘man wird über die Situation in Niger und den Widerstand der Bevölkerung berichten.
read moreThis week, public hearings in Eeyou Istchee made one thing pretty clear: The Cree Nation as a whole stands against the idea of uranium activities on their lands. As the digital journal reports, the Cree are willing to cooperate with the government to share the resources of their area – making an exception in the…
read moreAbout ten searches have been carried out this Monday June 3, at Areva company’s headquarters in the process of investigations on the 2007 “gold” purchasing of the Canadian Mining Company, UraMin by the French nuclear Giant. Another search was operated at Anne Lauvergion and other high-ranked employees.
read morevia [umweltfairaendern]: The Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung East Africa Office has published a study in cooperation with LHRC Tanzania. The study includes forewords by Dr. Helen Kijo-Bisimba (LHRC) and Dr. Robert Mtonga (IPPNW). Also included is the opening speech of the Dar es Salaam conference in October 2013. The articles touch general topics around health, environment,…
read moreAccording to “Anti Atom Indien“, a uranium transport from Bagjata to Jadugoda in India has been stopped by a group of armed men at Mai 7th 2014. Since then, no more uranium was transported from the mine in Bagjata to the mill in Jadugoda.
read moreOn Nov. 18, 2013, Denison Mines Corp. announced that approximately 100,541,657 common shares of Rockgate Capital Corp. have been validly deposited to Denison’s offer to acquire all of the outstanding shares of Rockgate. Denison has taken up and accepted for payment all of such shares, representing approximately 86% of the outstanding shares.On Jan. 17, 2014,…
read moreQuote from factsheet, compiled by Charmaine White Face for the Clean Up the Mines campaign: “The Mining companies walked away from their clean up responsibilities after decades of mining, leaving the public to bear their toxic legacy. The costs for clean-up of these abandoned sites have been moved from the past uranium mining operators onto…
read moreBesuch aus Tansania beim Ostermarsch-Auftakt an der Uranfabrik im westfälischen Gronau. Bereits am gestrigen Donnerstag traf der Aktivist Anthony Lyamunda den Bundestagsabgeordneten Hubertus Zdebel in Münster. Berichte von Dirk Seifert (umweltfairaendern.de): Ostermarsch an Uranfabrik Gronau: Dreckiges Uran aus Afrika und: Uranfabrik Gronau: “Atomanlage, mit der die Bundesrepublik ihren Status als potenzielle Atommacht…
read moreDas atomare Risiko beginnt mit dem Abbau des radioaktiven Schwermetalls Uran. Einem Rohstoff, der (bereits) auf seinem Weg von der Lagerstätte bis zum Reaktor für militärische Zwecke instrumentalisiert werden kann. Der Abbau des für den Betrieb von AKWs und Atomwaffen notwendigen Energieträgers führt zu erheblichen Umwelt- und Gesundheitsschäden, zu einem immensen Wasser-, Flächen- und Energieverbrauch…
read moreDemocracy Now: “A Slow Genocide of the People”: Uranium Mining Leaves Toxic Nuclear Legacy on Indigenous Land Grand Canyon is the site of a battle over toxic uranium mining. Last year, a company called Energy Fuels Resources was given federal approval to reopen a mine six miles from the Grand Canyon’s popular South Rim entrance.…
read moreAs the Arizona Daily Star reports, the Navajo Nation has won a settlement of more than 1Billion US-dollars for cleaning up the abandoned uranium mines formerly owned by Anadarko Petroleum Corp. The settlement resolves a legal battle over Tronox Inc., a 2005 spinoff of Kerr-McGee Corp. Anadarko acquired Kerr-McGee in 2006.
read moreBianca Blei of Der Standard interviews Golden Misabiko on Human rights issues, his opinion of the United Nations, and the ongoing illegal uranium mining in the DR Congo: Menschenrechtsaktivist: “Erneuerbare Energie rettet Leben in Afrika”.
read moreFind a french report on the ROTAB-demonstration here: http://nigerinformation.blogspot.ca/2014/03/la-marche-du-rotab-du-samedi-29-et-la.html
read more[via greenpeace] In Tschechien soll nach dem Willen der staatlichen Fördergesellschaft Diamo ein neues Uran-Bergwerk entstehen. Ministerpräsident Bohuslav Sobotka signalisierte bei einem Besuch der nach 60 Jahren nahezu ausgeschöpften Uran-Grube Rožná am Montag Unterstützung für das Projekt. Arbeitsplätze in der Region müssten erhalten bleiben, sagte der Sozialdemokrat nach Angaben der Agentur ČTK. Bedingung sei eine…
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