Ahh, such kind and considerate people on OLO! Bronco and Dickie
for instance, want to be able to switch on their computers at will,
to chat on OLO, as we burn coal to satisfy their cravings, yet
want to deny others on the planet the possibility to do the same,
without burning coal.

What a bunch of hypocrites!

"What a bunch of hypocrites!"

Welcome to Yabby, the representative for the industry the United Nations declared is one of the highest polluters in the world, causing the most serious environmental problems on the planet. An industry which is responsible for 70% of all emissions of nitrous oxides and more greenhouse gases than all the SUVs, cars, trucks, planes, and ships in the world combined - and that's just for starters!

What a hypocrite!

Kakadu National Park is one of the larger national parks in the world, under world heritage and consisting of four major river systems and various landforms. It is the breeding habitat of the endangered saltwater crocodile and the pig-nosed turtle. Its flora is very diverse and includes 46 rare or threatened species.

"In 2003, the World Heritage Committee expressed its concern about new leaks of contaminated water at the Ranger uranium mine and the Jabiluka mineral lease adjacent to Kakadu National Park.

"The Committee is also concerned about reported shortcomings in the regulatory reporting procedures at both mine sites and deficiencies in the management of ore stockpiles at the Ranger mine which reduce public confidence, in the management and monitoring of the two sites."

Ranger has so far, produced over 30 million tonnes of radioactive tailings, and there have been more than 120 documented leaks, spills and licence breaches at the mine in Kakadu National Park since the mine opened. The incidents have got more severe as the infrastructure has aged.

And so, despite the overwhelming evidence - the gross inefficiencies, abuses and cover-ups in the industry, the people of Western Australia have expressed support for Mr Barnett's delusional fantasies of wealth and power from the mining of uranium.

And the truth will remain irrelevant! So let them eat cake!

Sorry yabby but like me you properly already think you should not have said that.
Dickie however is showing the reasons threads about animal welfare and like this one are doomed to end in verbal warfare.
SOME please Lady's not every female, resort to getting of subject to have the last word.
I thought the threat was about uranium and Socialism.
Maybe it is about green vs the rest?
In any case I am sure I set myself up for a verbal kicking in saying it but review such threads.
Truly take the blinkers off.
We rarely take into account our posts surely are meant to bring others to our side of the debate, not to lecture on why we are right and every one else wrong.
How many truly tell me are more concerned about that turtle or is it tortoise?
When it comes down to it self interest has always driven man and it always will.
If it comes down to power or a turtle who do you think will win?
Having the last word in such threads is no win.
Sometimes the room is empty, the question is can we debate issues with an understanding others have different views?
And just maybe they are right?

Belly, nope, I never regret what I type, or I would not write it
in the first place. Perhaps you noticed the smiley, it was not
nasty, like many of the insults that Dickie throws around OLO.

But back to the point. The fact is that the genie is out of the
bottle, people in this world want electricity to function, that
includes the Dickie's of this world. If all those nuclear power
plants in Europe etc, switched back to coal and oil, things would
be far worse. Fact is they tick over day by day, providing energy
for our modern world, which exists, like it or not.

If a company is not mining uranium to satisfactory standards, well
States have huge powers to ensure that they get their house in
order. Mine sites these days have to comply with enormous amounts
of regulation. Every industry has its problems, even the religious
industry.

I note that BHP would have been quite happy to send their ore
offshore for further processing, but the SA Govt insists that it
is done here in Australia, at enormous expense.

Of course people are driven by self interest. That is human nature.
Even the Dickie's of this world are driven by self interest, thats
why they had children

Bronco Lane

You may know that the German wind energy industry has developed into an enormous economic factor, with a 5.64 billion euro turnover in 2006 and more than 73,800 people employed in the sector.

Services provided by German manufacturers of wind turbines include planning, construction, equipment, systems engineering, plant supervision, finance packages and training.

Exports are already playing a very important and ever-increasing role in the German wind industry. The export rate lies at 71 percent and the revenue from foreign business amounts to nearly 3.5 billion euros.

One reason for the increasing international demand for wind turbines is their increasing cost-efficiency. The costs for this eco-friendly method of energy generation have more than halved since the beginning of the 90s.”

And "Spain’s wind-power sector has continued its dramatic growth. Installed capacity in the country doubled in only three years, from 2003 to 2006, and is expected to double again by 2010. Spanish companies rank in the world’s top 10 among both wind-farm operators and turbine manufacturers."

http://www.technologyreview.com/microsites/spain/wind/index.aspx

However, in the UK, the estimated cost of decommissioning the UK's 19 ageing nuclear power plants is now in excess of $145 billion, almost a third higher than five years ago, according to a parliamentary watchdog.

Protests over uranium continue around the globe – Canada, India, Africa US, South America, Japan etc . In previous years, from northern China, came the voice of Sun Xiaodi, a whistleblower who has exposed massive unregulated uranium contamination. Xiaodi is now under house arrest in Gansu Province after he was "disappeared" and imprisoned in 2004-2005.

I see in the near future common sense prevailing. Tidal, solar, windpower - elements which do not require digging up. These forms of energy can be supplemented by gas for the interim periods.

Mother Nature buried uranium for good reason. She did not anticipate humans plundering and pillaging her contaminated and lethal waste repositories!

If anyone here can decode the off-topic, primitive hieroglyphics raised by Yabby and his rent boy, I would be grateful if you could help me out. Many thanks!

That will do me Dickie.
Rent boy how quick you are to insult.
And to over value your own thoughts
While undermining others.
You are trying to head in directions Bronco Lane never intended the thread to go.
He truly believes in radical Socialism.
And maybe you too think uranium is ok buried in the ground as it is by your so called mother nature.
[Do you truly think she is a living breathing, thinking thing?]
But not buried again by man?
The fact is uranium is like coal at natural product.
Now some of the very best posters here are women, my view the top ten are mostly female.
But some of the worst are too.
That feminine switching the subject or even throwing insults is clearly on display often.
Our hot dry country will use many forms of power, wind tidal yes nuclear but surely it is clear if we stop selling coal, and only sell uranium for others to use we are going to be left behind?
Yabby you waste your time, any one having opinions not shared by a few you constantly debate can never win.
Ask mum nature that all knowing all seeing girl.