Stand up with Yeelirrie Traditional Owners

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The proposed Yeelirrie uranium mine has been fought against for over 40 years. Hundreds of people have walked through Yeelirrie over the last five years to protest against the planned mine. They have walked side by side with Yeelirrie’s Traditional Owners and with pastoralists. The country is beautiful with valleys, spinifex plains, bush foods and flowers and it holds many important traditional stories and sites.

Right now the world’s largest uranium company - Cameco of Canada - is seeking the State government’s all clear to mine WA’s biggest uranium deposit at Yeelirrie in the northern Goldfields.You can ...

The proposed Yeelirrie uranium mine has been fought against for over 40 years. Hundreds of people have walked through Yeelirrie over the last five years to protest against the planned mine. They have walked side by side with Yeelirrie’s Traditional Owners and with pastoralists. The country is beautiful with valleys, spinifex plains, bush foods and flowers and it holds many important traditional stories and sites.

Right now the world’s largest uranium company - Cameco of Canada - is seeking the State government’s all clear to mine WA’s biggest uranium deposit at Yeelirrie in the northern Goldfields.You can help by letting the EPA know that uranium mining is unnecessary, unsafe and unwelcome. Please send your comments on the Yeelirrie Public Environment Review to the EPA now.

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The proposed Yeelirrie uranium mine has been fought against for over 40 years. Hundreds of people have walked through Yeelirrie over the last five years to protest against the planned mine. They have walked side by side with Yeelirrie’s Traditional Owners and with pastoralists. The country is beautiful with valleys, spinifex plains, bush foods and flowers and it holds many important traditional stories and sites.

Right now the world’s largest uranium company - Cameco of Canada - is seeking the State government’s all clear to mine WA’s biggest uranium deposit at Yeelirrie in the northern Goldfields.

You can help by letting the EPA know that uranium mining is unnecessary, unsafe and unwelcome. Stand together with Yeelirrie Traditional Owners in opposition to the Yeelirrie uranium mine.

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Re: Submission to Yeelirrie Uranium Proposal PER 2032

Uranium mining is unnecessary, unsafe and unwanted. The proposals to mine uranium at Yeelirrie have been consistently opposed by Yeelirrie Traditional Owners and local communities for over 40 years. I stand with them in opposition to uranium mining at Yeelirrie.

I am opposed to uranium mining at Yeelirrie because;
* Yeelirrie is a special place with important stories and sites 
* Australia has no example of a successfully rehabilitated uranium mine – all uranium mining leaves behind a toxic legacy on country
* Uranium tailings present an environmental risk for no less than 10,000 years - long after this Government and this company are gone.
* Mining uranium creates radioactive waste posing a public health risk 
* Cameco has a poor environmental and social track record at their operational mines in Canada and are currently facing tax avoidance charges
* Uranium is the fuel for nuclear power, which is expensive and dangerous and produces long lived radioactive waste and weapons grade material. 
* Nuclear is not the solution to climate change. It is too slow, expensive and risky. Our energy future is renewable, not radioactive.
* Australian uranium directly fuelled the Fukushima reactors and is the source of contamination in Japan and beyond. 
* Australian uranium becomes global nuclear waste and after 60 years of commercial nuclear power there is still no solution to nuclear pollution. 
* Uranium is the fuel for nuclear weapons. Nuclear weapons states continue to develop and deploy these existential threats to humanity

As the Yeelirrie Traditional Owners say “Wanti - leave the uranium in the ground”.

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