stop jabiluka : Melbourne Indymedia

This week, your abc did a good job of facilitating the NLC in presenting the nuclear industry's dream scenario -
aboriginal traditional owners welcoming the dirty business onto their land.

http://www.abc.net.au/stateline/nt/content/2006/s1933844.htm

unfortunately for the industry, this remarkable, unprecedented item of pro-nuke propaganda was upset a little by uranium miners Rio Tinto, who were a little over-optimistic in the status of their jabiluka project.

see the article 'ERA suffers foot in mouth'
at http://www.fnarena.com/index2.cfm?type=dsp_newsitem&n=C11B757D-17A4-1130-F5AFC387B5023272

which led to a strengthening of the firm stance of the Mirrar people in opposition to the jabiluka project.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/owners-sink-rios-jabiluka-hopes/2007/05/23/1179601487471.html

In steps the NLC (once again) to give the impression that, as with the commonwealth nuclear dump, they can apply their muscle to push an unwilling aboriginal community into submitting to the will of the nuclear industry.

see the article from http://abc.net.au/news/items/200705/1933999.htm?nt below :

Land owners, Rio Tinto to discuss Jabiluka mining
abc online Saturday, 26 May 2007.

The Northern Land Council says it will soon meet with mining giant Rio Tinto to discuss a possible uranium mine at Jabiluka, in the Northern Territory.

NT Mines Minister Chris Natt has already stated he will not interfere in negotiations between Rio Tinto and traditional owners.

This week, traditional owners said they would reject any proposal to mine the site, which is surrounded by Kakadu National Park.

But Rio Tinto's hopes have been reignited by yesterday's announcement that 70 Ngapa traditional owners agreed to nominate Muckaty Station, 120 kilometres north of Tennant Creek, as a site for Australia's first nuclear waste dump site.

Chief executive of the Northern Land Council, Norman Fry, says he will sit down with Rio Tinto and the Mirrar people to see if there is any possibility of the parties reaching a deal.

Mr Fry says the matter is not closed.

"There is a care and maintenance agreement that's in place. It will require the agreement of the traditional owners, the Mirrar, and that's where it's at currently," he said.

"We will be sitting down with Rio Tinto and the Mirrar in the not to distant future and that particular issue will be fleshed out."