Category: Uranium mining
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Media Release: Water management practices at Ranger Uranium mine, 6 March 1985.
W-0164-856 March 1985PRESS RELEASE BY THE MINISTER FOR MINES AND ENERGY, MR MARSHALL PERRON The Minister for Mines and Energy, Mr Marshall Perron, said today organisations like the Australian Conservation Foundation, Greenpeace and other anti-uranium groups were conducting an orchestrated campaign to spread alarm about water management practices at the Ranger Uranium Mine. Allegations made…
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Video: Jabiluka will never be mined.
Mirarr Traditional Owner Corben Mudjandi speaks about intergenerational resistance to uranium mining.
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Video: Rehabilitating the Ranger Mine
This is the story of a new approach to rehabilitating land – of healing country the Bininj way. The Ranger uranium mine opened in the Northern Territory in 1982 and exported uranium oxide worldwide for 40 years. Ranger mine is located on the lands of the Mirrar people. It’s surrounded by Kakadu National Park, a…
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Photograph: Jeffrey Lee, Koongarra, 2013
Portrait of Jeffrey Lee, senior custodian of the Koongarra uranium deposit. In 1970 uranium was discovered at Koongarra by the Canadian mining company Noranda. In 1977 the conservative Fraser government excluded the Koongarra Project Area (KPA) from the newly established Kakadu National Park. The KPA lies within the traditional lands of the Djok clan and…
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Video: ‘A Win for Kakadu’, 2013.
In this video, Djok Senior Traditional Owner Jeffrey Lee explains the importance of Koongarra and the sustained efforts to keep the uranium deposit from being mined.
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Yvonne Margarula and Jacqui Katona Win The Goldman Environmental Prize, 1999.
Each year, the Goldman Environmental Prize is awarded to grassroots environmental champions from around the world. In 1999, both Jacqui Katona and Yvonne Margarula jointly won the Goldman Environmental Prize for their work to stop the proposed uranium mine at Jabiluka. Read more via the Goldman Prize website.
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Painting: ‘Djidbidjidbi (King Brown Snake Dreaming)’, by Mark Djandjomerr, 2015.
The escarpment overlooking Ranger uranium mine, ‘Djidbidjidbi’ (King Brown Snake Dreaming)—also called Mount Brockman—is a sacred place for Mirarr. The power of this site and the risk that it would be disturbed by the proposed mine formed a big part of Mirarr’s opposition to Ranger. This 2015 painting, by Mark Djandjomerr, depicts Djidbidjidbi.
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