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	Jabiluka - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jabiluka is a proposed uranium mine in Australia that was to have been built on land belonging to the Mirrar Aboriginal people which was surrounded by the World Heritage listed Kakadu National Park.
		In 1998 the issue came to a head when the Mirrar people called on activists to come from around Australia and the world to blockade the construction of the mine by Energy Resources Australia (ERA).
		On August 12, 2003 rehabilitation works commenced on the Jabiluka site, 50 000 tonnes of uranium ore already extracted, but never processed, were put back down the mine-shaft at Jabiluka.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jabiluka (245 words)

	Jabiluka
		At Jabiluka in the Northern Territory's Kakadu National Park, two determined forces are in head-to-head conflict over the emotive element uranium from which can flow both life-sustaining electric power and unquenchable devastation.
		Jabiluka is forecast to generate $6.2 billion from processing and export of 200,000 tonnes of milled uranium oxide over a 25-year lifetime.
		This leaves ERA with the goal of having Jabiluka up and running by the beginning of the year 2000 when, incidentally, it must renegotiate with the Northern Land Council on the expiry of its authority to mine and process at Ranger.
	members.iinet.net.au /~jenks/Jabiluka.html (777 words)

	Jabiluka Rehabilitation : Melbourne Indymedia
		In their struggle to protect their country and culture they made Jabiluka a millstone for one of the world’s largest resource companies and have redefined future resource conflicts in Australia and internationally by elevating the rights of indigenous people everywhere to determine what happens to their country and their community.
		However - for now, and hopefully forever - the book is closed on plans to mine Jabiluka and the efforts of those who have acted to safeguard Kakadu and to move away from a future of imposed industrial developments and radioactive threats should be celebrated.
		The efforts to stop Jabiluka saw a campaign that travelled from the wetlands and rock country of Kakadu to our lounge rooms and boardrooms, to our churches, campuses and city streets, to the Australian and European Parliaments and UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee.
	melbourne.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=54285 (926 words)

	Taking a Job at Jabiluka -DOCUMENTARIES ON THE BACK FOOT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Jabiluka, a documentary directed by one of Australia's foremost filmakers, David Bradbury, is about the controversy surrounding the Government's plan to open a second uranium mine in Kakadu.
		A representative of ERA (the company who have been contracted to run the Jabiluka mine) desperately simplifies the process of extracting uranium from the mined rock.
		The film's power is twofold; On a factual level it educates the viewers on the history and facts surrounding the controversy of Jabiluka and forces us to confront the environmentally dangerous and morally dubious industry or uranium mining.
	www.big.com.au /film/jab31-12-97.html (776 words)

	Jabiluka Blockade - a critique
		The issue of the Jabiluka campaign is not the only thing that these women have to deal with- their responsibility is to the Mirrar in all aspects of Mirrars' day to day life.
		The ALP has stated that it will only stop Jabiluka if no contracts have been signed and if no export licence has been granted- both these processes have already happened, the singed contacts in abundance, and according the ALP the cancelling of their validity is not an option.
		She tendered as evidence written information on the mine at Jabiluka which outlined the dangers that this mine poses to the ecological environment and the Mirrar people as well as its contribution to the nuclear fuel cycle and nuclear weapons.
	www.takver.com /history/jabiluka1998.htm (8071 words)

	Jabiluka Uranium Deposit - ERA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Jabiluka deposit is located adjacent to the floodplain of the Magella Creek, a tributary of the East Alligator River in Kakadu National Park.
		the proposed Jabiluka mine would greatly increase the burden on the existing Ranger operation as the company plans to use the Ranger mill to process the ore. Ranger has a poor environmental record, especially in relation to water and tailings management.
		Any consideration of the proposed Jabiluka mine needs to be placed within the context of the Ranger operation.
	www.sea-us.org.au /jabiluka/jabover.html (574 words)

	Kakadu - Australia's Ancient Wilderness
		Jabiluka, an uranium ore body located within the park and on the land of an aboriginal tribe, is at the heart of an international controversy pitting the forces of capitalism against the proponents of conservation.
		However, with new mines like Jabiluka planned, the nation hopes its uranium exports will reach 26 percent of the world total by 2002.
		Australia's report went so far as to suggest that WHC plans to declare Kakadu an "in danger" area due to the mine were completely unfounded.
	www.pbs.org /edens/kakadu/controversy.html (554 words)

	Frontline Films - Jabiluka
		Living and social conditions amongst Kakadu's indigenous population have worsened and the people are deeply concerned about the impact of mining on their lives and the unknown consequences of storing crushed and pulverised radioactive wastes on their land.
		Jabiluka is the first of 26 proposed new uranium mines the Howard Government has before it for approval.
		The film Jabiluka clearly shows how the Mirrar were given no choice over the Ranger mine, how they were caught in a misleading process to consent to a lease over Jabiluka...
	www.frontlinefilms.com.au /videos/jabiluka.htm (761 words)

	The Fight For Jabiluka
		The Jabiluka Project was caught by this policy which remained in place for the next thirteen years.
		Nobody was fooled and Jabiluka remained stalled for the life of the Labor Government.
		The enclave boundaries of the Jabiluka and Ranger Mineral Leases are not recognised under bininj law.
	faculty.virginia.edu /ejus/Fight.htm (5087 words)

	ABC Radio National - Background Briefing: 16 June 1996 - Jabiluka: Yvonne Says "No"
		But no, really, the main purposes of it was to emphasise the fact that the two leases adjoin, that Jabiluka isn't hundreds of kilometres away from the Ranger lease, the two leases are actually adjoining with only about 20 kilometres between the two.
		Ken Lonie: Well the road is located between the Jabiluka outlier and the Jabiluka outlier is a sandstone protrusion in the area; which is really part of the main escarpment, but it is - this particular outlier - is remote from the main escarpment.
		They want to process the Jabiluka ore at their existing plant at Ranger, and they want to move the mine entrance to the other side of Jabiluka Hill.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/bbing/stories/s10765.htm (6242 words)

	Environment News Service ENS Latest Environmental Information Education Current Issues RSS
		While the Jabiluka Mineral Lease and the 1982 Jabiluka Mining Agreement remain in force, the newly signed Jabiluka Long-Term Care and Maintenance Agreement obliges Energy Resources of Australia to secure Mirarr consent prior to any future mining development of uranium deposits at Jabiluka.
		The backfilling of the 1.2 kilometer decline at Jabiluka was completed in late 2003, in the lead-up to this agreement, with mineralized and non-mineralized rock returned to the underground workings.
		In December 2000, the World Heritage Committee concluded that the approved proposal for the mine and mill at Jabiluka does not threaten the health of people or the biological and ecological systems of Kakadu National Park that the World Heritage Bureau's 1998 Mission believed to be at risk.
	www.ens-newswire.com /ens/feb2005/2005-02-28-03.asp (1634 words)

	Rio Tinto must rehabiltate Jabiluka
		The Senior Traditional Owner of the Mirrar People of Kakadu National Park, Yvonne Margarula, today,re- affirmed her opposition to the proposed Jabiluka uranium mine, following the release of a transcript of interview on BBC World with Rio Tinto Chairman, Sir Robert Wilson.
		The Mirrar will never support the Jabiluka mine and according to Sir Robert Wilson this means there will never be a Jabiluka mine, therefore the project site must be rehabilitated and the land incorporated into Kakadu National Park.
		Jabiluka has been the subject of persistent questioning and protest at the current World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, where Rio Tinto has a delegation.
	www.minesandcommunities.org /Company/rio16.htm (384 words)

	Jabiluka Uranium Mining Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Construction of the Jabiluka uranium mine started on 16 June 1998, though a decision on the mill location and an environmental assessment of the Jabiluka Mill Alternative are pending still.
		In its Comments on the Jabiluka Draft Environmental Impact Statement, Friends of the Earth Sydney raised the lack to address the long-term impacts of the project, in particular of the tailings disposal.
		The Northern Land Council (NLC) has informed ERA that the Aboriginal landowners associated with the Jabiluka project area have not given their consent to any proposal to modify the project, including the proposal to mill Jabiluka ore at the Ranger site, and moreover, do not wish the Jabiluka project to proceed at all.
	www.wise-uranium.org /upjab.html (3629 words)

	ERA: Jabiluka Long Term Care and Maintenance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		In 1991 ERA purchased the Jabiluka mineral lease, adjoining the northern edge of the existing Ranger project area, from Pancontinental Mining Ltd. An agreement to develop the lease was reached with the Northern Land Council representing Aboriginal interests in 1982.
		An agreement - the Jabiluka Long Term Care and Maintenance Agreement - was drafted to formalize this understanding between ERA, the Northern Land Council and the Mirarr Traditional Owners.
		The Jabiluka Long Term Care and Maintenance Agreement, was finalised in 2004 and finally signed in early 2005, underpinned better relations between the company and the Gundjeihmi Aboriginal Corporation (representing the Mirarr people).
	www.energyres.com.au /environment/jabiluka-care.shtml (470 words)

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		In the case of the Jabiluka mine site, which is currently being constructed on historically native lands, mining royalties have been offered in excess of $200 million dollars to the local Aboriginal community as a mitigation tactic (Energy Resources of Australia, 1998).
		The Jabiluka Blockade is a national movement of students, environmentalists, scientists, and concerned citizens that has been both violently and nonviolently opposing the Jabiluka mine.
		The population of the Northern Territory during the last census (1991) was 190,500 while that of the Jabiru region of the Northern Territory, within which the Jabiluka lease is located, was 7,250 (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission, 1998: Australian Bureau of Statistics Statsite).
	www.umich.edu /~snre492/Jabiluka.html (3374 words)

	Jabiluka
		The Mirrar people are the legal title holders to the area surrounding and including the Ranger and Jabiluka Mineral Leases in Kakadu National Park.
		The Jabiluka deposit is located adjacent to the floodplain of the Magella Creek, a tributary of the East Alligator River in Kakadu National Park, in the Northern Territory.
		The Jabiluka proposal is deadlocked, with lease ownership having passed to Rio Tinto and no clear idea of how this company plans to deal with the issue.
	www.anawa.org.au /nt/jabiluka.html (581 words)

	JABILUKA MILL ALTERNATIVE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		ERA's preferred option for the Jabiluka Mill Alternative involves the mixing of tailings with a cement paste and the disposal of 50% of the tailings in purpose built pits.
		The Jabiluka mine and the Ranger Mill option were comprehensively assessed in the 1997 EIS.
		The milling of uranium ore at Jabiluka will be environmentally acceptable if 100% of the tailings are placed back underground in the mine void and the recommendations in Attachment A are complied with.
	faculty.virginia.edu /ejus/Mill.htm (1749 words)

	Jabiluka
		The Jabiluka lease pre-dates and is surrounded by the world famous Kakadu National Park, which has been inscribed on the World Heritage list due to its outstanding natural and cultural values (World Heritage Reports).
		In October 1996, ERA completed an EIS for their preferred option for Jabiluka which is to transport ore by truck 20 km south to the existing Ranger Mill and extract the uranium there, rather than build a mill and process plant at Jabiluka.This is called the Ranger Mill Alternative (RMA).
		This option is called the Jabiluka Mill Alternative (JMA), was subject to a Public Environmental Review (PER) and approval was given by the Minister for the environment in 1998 with 17 recommendations.
	www.deh.gov.au /ssd/uranium-mining/arr-mines/jabiluka (813 words)

	Outside Online Archives \| Outside Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		But that land is also subject to the Jabiluka mineral lease, held by Energy Resources of Australia Ltd., for extraction of what's underneath: one of the world's largest known deposits of uranium ore. ERA is a uranium-mining company that last year did $128 million in sales to electric utilities in Asia, Europe, and North America.
		This was not an act of pointed trespass but merely a "culture walk," an outing offered by way of thanks and farewell to the hundreds of protestors who had lived for weeks in the camp nearby, serving as foot soldiers in her fight against ERA.
		Stage One, declared in 1979, was a jagged-shaped parcel encompassing the escarpment, a chunk of lowland forest, a wedge of the East Alligator floodplain, and the artistic riches of Ubirr and Nourlangie.
	www.outsidemag.com /magazine/0399/9903kakadu.html (6360 words)

	Uranium Information Centre
		Jabiluka lies 230 kilometres east of Darwin and 20 kilometres north of Ranger on the edge of the floodplain of Magela Creek, a tributary of the East Alligator River.
		Jabiluka 2 has reserves in excess of 160 000 tonnes of uranium oxide, and is one of the world's larger high grade uranium deposits.
		A Public Environmental Report on the alternative of milling the ore at Jabiluka was approved in August 1998, conditional upon all tailings being emplaced underground.
	www.uic.com.au /pmine.htm (4562 words)

	Jabiluka Mill Alternative - Default (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This report assesses the environmental impact of the Jabiluka Mill option for the proposal by Energy Resources of Australia Ltd (ERA) to establish and operate an underground uranium mine at the Jabiluka Number 2 uranium prospect, 230 km east of Darwin and 20 km north of Jabiru, in the Northern Territory.
		Major issues associated with the development and operation of the Jabiluka Project raised during the review of the PER, public comments and comments by government advisory bodies are listed below and are the focus of the contents of this assessment report.
		The proponent shall investigate the long term effect that both acid and alkaline groundwater at Jabiluka would have on the alkaline cemented paste tailings and the groundwater movement in and around the tailings mass.
	www.lpe.nt.gov.au /enviro/EIAREG/jabmilalt (1395 words)

	Jabiluka Background
		Meanwhile, in 1991, Jabiluka (with its development agreements) was purchased by Energy Resources of Australia (ERA), the owner and operator of the adjacent Ranger mine, for A$ 125 million.
		Agreements for Ranger, Nabarlek and Jabiluka development were signed with the Aboriginal elders, and the Gagudju Association was formed to bring together those concerned with Ranger.
		The present senior traditional owner inherited the Jabiluka agreement from her father, and now disagrees with it, despite the fact that she was part of a group of five Aboriginal traditional owners who lobbied the federal Labor government in 1991 to allow Jabiluka to proceed.
	www.uic.com.au /Jabiluka.htm (1743 words)

	Age Article on Jabiluka : Melbourne Indymedia
		Yvonne Margarula doesn't care that she is blocking development of Jabiluka, one of the world's biggest known deposits of uranium worth an estimated $10.5 billion as world prices soar.
		Her attack on uranium mining on the Mirarr's traditional land appears to end any hope that ERA had of developing its deposit at Jabiluka, 22 kilometres north of Ranger.
		ERA, majority-owned by British mining giant Rio Tinto, told the inquiry that Jabiluka was a "world-class" deposit that the company regarded as a "valuable asset".
	melbourne.indymedia.org /news/2005/07/93655.php (658 words)

	WISE NC: JABILUKA: ELECTIONS AND ABUSE OF PROCESS
		The Jabiluka mine is proceeding under a 1982 mineral lease agreement which required Aboriginal consent - consent which the Mirrar now claim was gained by deceit and duress.
		The ERA's proposal to dispose of half of the radioactive tailings at Jabiluka in an evaporation pit and place the other half back into the mining shaft after mixing it with a cement paste was "scientifically uncertain".
		He rejected the ERA's original proposal as advised by his department, but reccommended to Resources Minister Parer that the Jabiluka mill be 'approved' subject to the ERA's "100% in the hole" proposal undergoing further environmental assessment by the Commonwealth supervising scientist, and the New Territory government.
	www.antenna.nl /wise/497/4914.html (1270 words)

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