Uranium Free Charter

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WA has never had a commercial uranium mine; we’ve had state wide bans on uranium mining and federal restrictions on uranium mining and a long history of public opposition.

Since 2008 when the Barnett Liberal/National Government lifted the ban on uranium mining in WA there has been over 250 uranium exploration drilling programs and 4 proposals to mine uranium.

Thanks to the low uranium price, a lack of bipartisan support for the industry and sustained community opposition there is no operating uranium mine in WA.

Let's keep it that way, because the risks and real and the threat persists. Uranium is unwanted, unsafe, and uneconomic.

WA has never had a commercial uranium mine; we’ve had state wide bans on uranium mining and federal restrictions on uranium mining and a long history of public opposition.

Since 2008 when the Barnett Liberal/National Government lifted the ban on uranium mining in WA there has been over 250 uranium exploration drilling programs and 4 proposals to mine uranium.

Thanks to the low uranium price, a lack of bipartisan support for the industry and sustained community opposition there is no operating uranium mine in WA.

Let's keep it that way, because the risks and real and the threat persists. Uranium is unwanted, unsafe, and uneconomic.

Uranium Free Charter

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I have signed the Uranium Free Charter of WA along with a growing number of individuals and organisations who reject the dangerous, thirsty and costly uranium industry and instead want a clean nuclear free future for WA.

As the nuclear disaster in Japan continues to unfold,  utilities and investors are divesting from the uranium sector and nuclear power programs are being reviewed and rewound around the world. The uranium price in 2016 reached a new 12 year low – trading below US$20lb. This industry is unwanted, unsafe and increasingly uneconomic.

Opening up Western Australia to uranium mining would not only cost WA taxpayers, but would leave a ten thousand year legacy of pollution and radioactive waste in our soil and groundwater.

I call on you to oppose and ban uranium mining in WA, end any public funding for uranium exploration through the Exploration Incentive Scheme and instead use these funds to support renewable energy development in WA.

Uranium Free Charter, Western Australia

Western Australians face a choice about uranium mining. We believe the current push to allow uranium mining in our state is a direct threat to workers' safety and the long-term health of our environment and communities. And, as history shows, uranium mining does not make good economic sense and leaves behind a radioactive legacy.

Uranium has uniquely dangerous properties and associated risks and is unlike any other mineral in our resource rich state.

Uranium mining is linked to the production of some of the world’s most toxic and long-lasting industrial wastes and the proliferation of the world’s most destructive weapons.

Uranium mining in Western Australia would result in severe environmental damage at and around any mine site, including the permanent contamination of water. It would increase health risks to workers and communities around WA through increased and concentrated exposure to radiation from uranium ore and other materials like radon gas, heavy metals, acids and other chemicals. It would also mean growing pressure for WA to host the storage of radioactive waste as a consequence of mining and exporting uranium.

The nuclear industry promotes nuclear power as a solution to climate change. It is investment in renewable energy, not uranium that will create thousands of jobs for Australian workers, without the health risks associated with uranium mining and nuclear energy. It is not the answer to attempt to solve one environmental and social problem by foolishly embracing another. The nuclear industry is high cost, high risk and not sustainable.

WA has an abundance of natural resources and highly resourceful people. We believe our state’s future lies not in the controversial and contaminating uranium industry but rather in being a national and international leader in secure and renewable energy generation and smart and efficient energy use.

We call on all Members of Parliament and political parties to resist the push by some mining companies to use the pretext of climate change and jobs to impose an unnecessary, costly and dangerous industry on WA.

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