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Protestival Handbook July 1St 2016 SHUT DOWN THE NUCLEAR CHAIN WHERE IT STARTS PROTESTIVAL HANDBOOK JULY 1ST 2016 www.lizardbitesback.net WelcomeThis event will be held on Kokatha Country, home to Kokatha elders past and present Hey you all, Uncle Kev here, Arabunna Elder and peace maker. We are trying our best to save our land and ourselves thats why we are calling all you mob out to Lizards to stop this mine and dump. A lot of people are suffering, we just trying hard to fight this goverment and multinational companies. Come on board and support us, fight with us to make peace, we are fighting a big battle, everybody black white and what ever, Im asking you all to come on board for the lizard bites back. Young ones and old ones everybody come on down. The government has failed us its up to us.. see you there .. the lizards gonna bite back! Uncle Kevin Buzzacott is an Aboriginal elder from the Arabunna nation in northern South Australia. He has campaigned widely for cultural recognition, justice and land rights for Aboriginal people. He has initiated and led numerous campaigns against uranium mining at the BHP Billiton owned Olympic Dam mine in South Australia for their environmental contamination, and the exploitation of the water from the Great Artesian basin that is impacting the mound springs in the Lake Eryre region. The mound springs are integral to the desert ecosystem and sacred to the Arabunna people. He is the honorary president of the Australian nuclear free alliance. 2 “Many of our food sources, traditional plants and trees are gone because of this mine. We worry for our water: it’s our main source of life. The mine causes many safety risks to our roads – transporting the uranium from the mine. It has stopped us from accessing our sacred sites and de-stroyed others. These can never be replaced. BHP never consulted me or my families, they select who they consult with. Many of our people have not had a voice. We want the mine stopped now, because it’s not good for anything.” Eileen Wingfield, Kokatha elder and member of the Kupa Piti Kungka Tjuta who fought and won against the government over the first proposed radioactive waste dump in the 1990's. She is no longer with us but her legacy lives on. CONTENTS! Why are we here ? pg 5 Olympic Dam Expansion Update pg 7 Olympic Dam Summary pg 8 Uncle Kev’s Court Challenge pg 12 SA: Once Again Facing Propsals for a Nuclear Waste Dump pg 13 Adnyamathanha Media Release pg 17 Heap Leach Mining of Uranium and Associated Risks pg 19 Getting There pg 22 Camp facilities/First Aid/Dunny pg 23 What to bring pg 24 Festival rough Guide pg 25 Artist info pg 27 Cabaret Radiate/Sound System pg 29 Campsite Legal Briefing pg 30 Lizard Bites Law (Legals booket) pg 34 Why we are here Lizards Bites Back is a non- Station in the Flinders Ranges, has violent protest festival, opposing sought to impose a waste dump any further expansion of the on Aboriginal communities without nuclear industry in South Australia consultation and without the and showcasing renewable consent of Aboriginal communities alternatives. We stand in solidarity that would be most directly with Aboriginal custodians in affected. opposing the expansion of the nuclear industry in South Australia. This is a human rights issue. Article 29 (2) of the UN Declaration The nuclear industry has and on the Rights of Indigenous continues to disproportionately Peoples, which Australia has affect Aboriginal people in signed on to states that: Australia. Traditional owners and “States shall take effective Native Title holders have no right measures to ensure that no in law to veto mining projects storage or disposal of hazardous and every nuclear waste dump materials shall take place in the proposal, from Woomera to the lands or territories of indigenous current proposal for Wallerberdina peoples without their free, prior 5 and informed consent.” Station for further consideration Similar issues arise for the for a national nuclear waste dump. Olympic Dam mine. Under The Olympic Dam mine itself will the Indenture Act, BHP Billiton also eventually become a dump – is completely exempt from in the sense that once it is closed, the Aboriginal Heritage Act it will leave millions of tonnes of 1988, which is the key piece of radioactive tailings on the surface legislation protecting Aboriginal of the land forever. Heritage in SA. Instead the The Lizard Bites Back will re- company recognises the 1979 focus on the source of the version of the Act, which problem, highlighting an absurd was never made law in SA global situation where we keep and provides much weaker mining a mineral we have no idea protections for Aboriginal heritage. how to dispose of safely, whilst Additionally, BHP is exempt from proposals are again being made certain parts of this Act. The effect to force nuclear waste dumps of these exemptions is that BHP on communities that do not want has absolute discretion on what them. Aboriginal sites are recognised It will also highlight continuing and protected. It is a clear conflict community opposition to any of interest to have a corporation expansion of the Olympic Dam with a commercial interest in mine. In 2012 The Lizards a piece of land also making Revenge mobilised 500 people decisions regarding whether this against the expansion of the mine. same land has competing non- Since then, that proposal has commercial values been shelved and the company has been investigating heap However, the health and leach mining as part of a cheaper environmental impacts of the expansion plan. BHP is expected nuclear industry do not know skin to begin a heap leach trial on the colour. They affect all Australians current mining lease by late this and will continue to do so for year. generations. A Royal Commission has recently recommended that South Australia host an international high level nuclear waste dump, and the Federal government has shortlisted only Wallerberdina 6 The Olympic Dam expansion - update Since the expansion was shelved in 2012, BHP Billiton has announced its intention to investigate a less capital intensive (read cheaper) expansion plan using heap leach mining. Heap leaching involves piling mined ore into a heap with a liner underneath begin late 2016. In November and pouring an acidic chemical 2014 a Department of State solution (usually sulphuric acid) Development projection pushed over it, which trickles through the the construction start to the fourth pile leaching out the uranium and quarter of 2015. copper. The uranium and copper enriched solution is captured at The trial will be on the current the bottom of the pile in ponds. mining lease and at this stage it This method is typically applied is unclear whether construction to copper or gold and is usually of the pilot facility has begun, reserved for low concentrations and whether the company is on- of metal or low grade ore, where track to begin the trial later this it is not economic to process by year. The company has been regular methods. conducting laboratory trials at Wingfield, South Australia. BHP Billiton has Federal and State approval for a heap leach BHP has until October 2016 demonstration trial. Federal to proceed with an expansion approval did not require any under the approvals given for new environmental assessment the expansion it shelved in 2012. process, despite a new mining Even though heap leach mining technique not currently used on- was not considered under its site. original Environmental Impact Statement, current environmental The company originally projected approvals for the shelved that construction of a heap leach expansion plan will carry through demonstration plant would begin to any new expansion plan using in the second half of 2015, with heap leach mining. a 36 month on-site trial period to 7 BHP BILLITON'S OLYMPIC DAM MINE BHP Billiton planned to consuming around 37 million supplement underground mining litres of Great Artesian Basin with a massive open-cut mine water every day, and contributing at Olympic Dam (a.k.a. Roxby to global problems with nuclear Downs). Export of uranium was waste and weapons proliferation. expected to increase from an BHP is also investigating options average of 4,000 tonnes per year for heap leach uranium mining. to 19,000 tonnes per year and the production of copper, gold and silver was also expected to Radioactive increase. Racism The Olympic Dam mine The company was not required operates under the Roxby to study the viability of mining Downs Indenture Act, which copper, gold and silver without provides exemptions from the also extracting and selling SA Aboriginal Heritage Act 1988. uranium − an option which would BHP Billiton is in a legal position allow for ongoing, profitable to determine what consultation mining while addressing at least occurs with Traditional Owners, some of the major problems. who is consulted, and nature of any consultation. The company The planned expansion was decides the level of protection that cancelled in August 2012 with Aboriginal heritage sites receive BHP citing economic factors and which sites are recognised. including the weak uranium BHP Billiton claims that it fully price following the March 2011 complies with Aboriginal heritage Fukushima disaster. Also in legislation – if so, why is it 2012, BHP Billiton disbanded its unwilling to relinquish the legal Uranium Division and it sold the exemptions? Yeelirrie lease in WA for a small fraction of the nominal value of It is ironic and hypocritical the uranium resource. that BHP Billiton supports Reconciliation Australia's 'good The existing underground mine governance' program and has continues to operate, producing provided over $2 million to 10 million tonnes of radioactive Reconciliation Australia, yet will tailings waste annually, not relinquish its exemptions from 8 the Aboriginal Heritage Act 1988.
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