Australia: Uranium mine called 'World's worst practice'

Uranium mining in the far north of South Australia at the Beverley location near Arkaroola Wilderness Resort is being openly challenged by Aboriginal Traditional Owner Mrs Enice Marsh.

She is concerned that the new Beverly Four Mile uranium mine is destroying sacred sites, polluting the environment unnecessarily, and promoting a culture of bullying.
“This mine offer no career path for Aboriginal workers, just unskilled labour in the short term and local people living in the area will be left with the mess forever,” she said. Mrs Marsh said community consultation is a joke.

“The use of technical and legal language is hard to understand especially for older people, and the mining company actively encourages disrespect toward women during cultural site inspections”

Mrs Marsh’s daughter, Jillian Marsh, has been doing a case study research of the Beverley Uranium Mine to explore the ‘impact assessment’ and ‘decision-making’ processes used when the mine was first approved by government.

The literature she has looked at about the method of mining shows that in-situ leach mining pollutes the underground water tables and sloppy environmental regulations by government these mining companies are able to operate at a very low standard.

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