greenpeace warns of uranium staking

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It is no longer utopia. Within a few years, Greenland become a major exporter of the controversial uranium if Greenland's new government succeeds in opening the authorization of maybe a handful of mines. This will be done in the extraction of rare earths, metals or other strategic minerals as the main products. It is noteworthy that the Australian mining company Greenland Minerals and Energy in the degree has become a darling of Progressive Party Party and the new minister. During the immediate past minister of IA in the lead was the attitude to my company extremely cool. Party IA was against uranium mining.

Where, for the uranium friendly minister with Progressive Party in the lead, it takes hardly a long time before Australians can search the Greenland authorities for permission to build Kvanefjeld mine. But before the application can be delivered, it is necessary that the Greenland Parliament adopts a law on the abolition of zero tolerance for uranium. During my company's headquarters in Perth, Australia's cheers. The company hopes to get the green light from the Greenland government to apply for mining license at the end of this year. 'Cabinet's attitude towards us is very promising. If we get investors and documents in place for the export of products from Greenland, we need a few years to build, so the mine can be opened in 2016-17, "says director John Mair from Greenland Minerals and Energy.

Greenland underground stores a number of instances of minerals, which among other things contains the radioactive elements uranium and thorium. Kvanefjeld in South Greenland holds one of the world's large deposits of uranium. discussion about whether Greenland should change their practice and allow uranium mining on the mountain, has been highly relevant with the new country governed announcement that zero-tolerance policy for uranium to be repealed. Uranium can be used both for civilian purposes in nuclear power plants and weapons industry for atomic bombs, projectiles in ammunition and armor shield for vehicles. deep concern for the environment Uranium has in recent years become increasingly important globally. Among other demanding countries such as Russia, South Korea, China and India uranium for nuclear power plants for use as fuel for the production of electricity with low levels of CO2. use of nuclear power is extremely controversial. Both because of the consequences of an accident are at Three Mile Island in the United States in 1979, Chernobyl in Russia in 1986 and most recently Fukushima in Japan in April 2011, but also because of difficulties in finding safe conditions for long-term storage of highly radioactive waste. For several decades, Denmark and Greenland said no to nuclear energy and uranium mining in the commonwealth. Greenpeace is deeply concerned that the new Greenlandic government attaches distance to the decades-long opposition in parliament and the county council about nuclear energy and dispersion of radioactive material. "Whether it is military or civilian use, the uranium is being far away from the Earth's surface where it can have unpredictable health and environmental consequences. Therefore, we are deeply concerned and fundamentally opposed to the plans to abolish zero tolerance. It is quite difficult to understand why you are so staunch in its decision no homework at all is in place, either in Greenland or Denmark, "says General Mads Christensen Flarup from Greenpeace.