Australia’s Potential Uranium Mining Industry

Uranium is a naturally occuring chemical element that can be mined from ore in many parts of the Southwestern United States where

Mining has strong increase in revenues and investment in the mining sector and for other industries aligned to mining and resources. Modelling undertaken for this document estimates that the mining increase has on average delivered 0.62 per cent to whole funding

Jullia Gillard is the first woman prime minister in Australia who was her country’s twenty-seventh prime minister and head leader of the Australian government. She received a seat in the house of representative in 1998 and won a seat of labor in the federal election in Australia. After the election in 2001 Ms. Gillard became a member of the Shadow Cabinet. While Gillard was still in office, Australia experienced the global economic crisis that peaked in 2007-2008 exceeding any other industrialized countries. During this time frame the Rudd Administration suffered a number of legislative setback leading to the poll numbers for prime ministers. After being elected Ms. Gillard negotiated a comprised agreement with the mining companies which reduce

Energy- Everyone needs it. The major challenge for the 21st century however, is generating this energy with the lowest impact on human and ecological health. A number of differing production methods have been derived in response to this, one of the most controversial of which is Nuclear energy supplied through Uranium mining. This is a uniquely topical issue in Australia, on account of the sheer amount of Uranium held in Australia’s borders (30% of the world’s reserves) and its potential impact on Australia’s economy (4), the politicised and partisan nature of nuclear debate, along with longstanding opposition associated with such striking international disasters as the Chernobyl and, more recently, Fukushima events (1). With such significant

Uranium can be found in a lot of places in small quantities such as rocks, soil, and water. However, its harder to find uranium in amounts that are worth the trouble.

The mining has become a controversial topic due to the mass publicity regarding the potential danger of nuclear power and uranium mining, not to mention the objections by some Indigenous groups. The controversy is significant

560km NNW of the city of Adelaide and along B97 lies the Olympic Dam mine. Olympic Dam, owned by BHP Billiton corporation and produces uranium ore, copper ore, silver ore and gold ore. Olympic Dam is one of the largest uranium deposits in the world and 25% of Olympic Dams revenue is from the uranium. The materials produced from the underground use a system called Sublevel Open Stoping.

Uranium mining on the Navajo Nation was put to a stop during the year 2005

However, there if there is something good there has to be a bad part as well. Even though mining is helping the technologies to grow rapidly everyday, there are side affects caused to the people live near mining areas, especially indigenous people, given that a substantial number of mining operations are on or near Indigenous land, the increase in mining investment may have extremely affected Indigenous communities. There are concerns that, in remote mining areas, the increases in house costs generated by the mining boom mean that anyone who doesn’t work in the mining industry, especially those who are 100% relied on government benefits, will find it harder to afford housing. It will not affect the current generation; however, it will have a huge impact on the future generation. For example, parents wont be able to afford money for their children to go to school, which will result in, kids started working as child labours or slaves and people will find it hard to afford foods and

Today uranium is mostly used for nuclear properties. It’s used in nuclear power plants to generate heat. Uranium’s effect on Saskatchewan is good and bad, to mine uranium you have to destroy the land so that you can mine it, mining Uranium is costly put it makes you good money to. This reflects to Saskatchewan because we have the richest deposit of uranium.

The mining business is where the greater part of Australia’s economy originates from. Conservative politicians are unwilling to accept climate change, for the reason that they favour society’s values and aspects to be unchanged. A case which supports this notion is Australia’s and the United States rejecting to join other countries in partaking in the Kyoto Protocol. The Kyoto Protocol aims to unite countries to set limits on their greenhouse gas emissions, to suppress the destructive effects of climate change. The United States expresses that it will not participate in the international treaty due to; absence of sufficient supporting scientific evidence, large developing countries such as China or India aren’t partaking in the movement and reducing the greenhouse emissions would mean loss in their economy. Therefore, Australia and the United States will be more reluctant to adapting accepting climate change as it will negatively affect the industries that both countries originated from and have thrived on (Vanderheiden,

Addressing the Canadian mining industry from an economic angle, one would agree that this industry has provided employment, revenue, community development and lots more to Canada especially to its local residents where mining firms are located. (M.A.C, 2014). Mining is amongst Canada's most essential economic sectors. It contributes enormously to Canada's gross domestic product. Part of the reasons why this industry has remained a key economic driver is that it has been able to remain competitive. For the industry to be competitive, they must have access to key market, a regulatory system that is efficient and a pool of talent to combat the shortage of skills.

I learned that mines were abandoned and in this case we have the responsible helping out. In other cases like the Gold King Mine in Colorado that it was used in the early 1900’s, the responsible that abandoned the mines were from Canada and are no were to be found. The problem with these mines is that when they extract all the uranium and there is no need for the mines, these mines need to be abandoned and closed. Unfortunately, there was no cleanup process when the mines were abandoned. Leaving the areas contaminated and the water from the rain transporting the contamination to other areas. 100 years ago, there was no standard on how to properly abandon a mine. Now days, the EPA and the state environmental departments are responsible to enforce the proper abandonment procedures and make sure the closure will not contaminate nearby areas or the water used for drinking, crops, and other human and animal uses. The runoff of the mine contamination can increase the total dissolve solids (TDS) in the nearby waters, making it non usable for human consumption and fish

This is why uranium is so popular within the higher ups of countries, especially the military.

Figure 2. This image illustrates where major reserves of uranium are found on earth. <http://www.globalresearch.ca/articlePictures/uranium_reserves.jpg>.