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Lizards Revenge AUGUST 3, 2012 | No. 753 AUSTRALIA: LIZARDS REVENGE - EXPANSION OLYMPIC DAM UNDER AUSTRALIA: LIZARDS PRESSURE REVENGE - EXPANSION Hundreds of people from around the country joined the Lizards Revenge music OLYMPIC DAM UNDER PESSURE 1 and arts festival and protest camp that took place at the gates of BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam copper and uranium mine in South Australia from 14-18 July 2012. BELGIUM CONFIRMS NUCLEAR The protest at Olympic Dam was staged to stop the planned expansion of the PHASE-OUT BY 2025, BUT EXTENDS LIFETIME OF copper and uranium mine, which received a go ahead in October 2011. But TIHANGE-1 2 economics raised uncertainties about the expansion project. SELLAFIELD: REPROCESSING (753.4260) WISE Amsterdam - Sleep- ments in several mining projects. BHP TO END IN 2018 – OR…? 3 ing underneath the ground, there is an Billiton chief executive Marius Kloppers old lizard known as Kalta the sleepy said that a faster-than-expected slow- UK NUCLEAR PROGRAM – lizard. The lizard ain’t so sleepy anymo- down in China and increasing European NOT DEAD YET AS re. BHP Billiton is mining right into that instability will rule out a "near-term" GOVERNMENT TRIES TO SAVE Lizard’s body. Kalta is angry and wants improvement in operating conditions, FACE 4 revenge. The land is being irreversibly forcing the world's biggest miner to re- poisoned in and around Roxby Downs. think spending on its portfolio of major BURNING OUR RIVERS: THE The tailings dam is causing dust and projects. The Aus$30 billion (US$31bn WATER FOOTPRINT OF ground water contamination and conta- or 15.5bn euro) expansion of its Olym- ELECTRICITY 5 mination of its own workers. Arabunna pic Dam mine is shaping up as the first elder Kevin Buzzacott is calling the peo- major victim of the volatile economic SELLAFIELD’S GERMAN PU ple of the world to help the lizard shut conditions. 'CUT AND PASTED’ TO down the mine. He is calling for people A decision by the world's biggest miner FRANCE BY UK GOVERNMENT 7 to come and heal the land in the name on whether to proceed with the pro- of peace and justice for the next 10,000 posed expansion of its mine will not NUCLEAR-FREE FUTURE generations to come. be made until 2014 rather than by the ARWARDS 2012 8 end of this year, as previously stated by On July 17, about 350 anti-uranium ac- BHP. The expansion of Olympic Dam is U.S.: PLANNED LEVY tivists have broken through an exterior one of three major BHP projects seen COUNTY REACTORS: fence of the mine ,but were prevented by analysts as vulnerable to setbacks OUTSTANDING ISSUES 8 from reaching the mine, by a main as markets soften. The company has Remembering Toni Wenisch 9 reinforced steel gate. A few days later, until early December to give the final after the official lizards revenge festival go-ahead for the Olympic Dam project IN BRIEFS 9 ended, about 40 people blocked Olym- or it faces the need to renegotiate state pic Way, one of te road s leading to government approvals Olympic Dam. They pushed a car onto the road, let down its tyres and locked A day later, on July 29, The Australian the steering. Two men then chained reported that the most likely of Austra- themselves to the underside. Both lia's next big uranium mine develop- were arrested and charged with illegal ments - the Kintyre project in Western interference. Australia's Great Sandy desert - has fallen victim to sluggish demand and But the July 28, edition of the Weekend prices for uranium. Project operator and Australian newspaper reported that 70 per cent owner, Canada's Cameco, BHP Billiton is reconsidering invest- has revealed that the economics of the 1 project are "challenging" in that a deve- lopment, will not begin development Sources: ABC, 17 July 2012 / Reuters, lopment would not be profitable at cur- of what would have been WA's first 28 July 2012/ Australian, 28 & 29 Au- rent uranium prices. Prices are 34 per uranium mine in early 2014 as first plan- gust 2012 / www.lizardsrevenge.net cent below where they need to be for a ned. A 2014 start to production would contact: Anti-Nuclear Alliance of viable project. Cameco chief executive have meant first production in 2016. Western Australia, 5 King William St, Tim Gitzel told analysts that Cameco Discovered more than 25 years ago, the Bayswater 6053, Australia. was "not going to develop Kintyre at contemplation of Kintyre's development Tel: +61 9271 8786 any cost." only became possible with the elec- Email: admin[at]anawa.org.au tion of the pro-uranium mining Barnett Web: www.anawa.org.au It means that Cameco and its 30 per government in 2008. cent partner, Japan's Mitsubishi Deve- BELGIUM CONFIRMS NUCLEAR PHASE- OUT BY 2025, BUT EXTENDS LIFETIME OF TIHANGE-1 On July 4, the Belgian government finally took a decision about the fate of nuclear power. According to the 2003 nuclear phase-out law, all seven PWR's (4 at Doel and 3 at Tihange, with a total of 5,900 MW) should be decommissioned after 40 years of operation. In 2015, the three oldest reactors Doel-1, Doel-2 (both 433 MW) and Tihange-1 (900 MW) will reach the age of 40. The four other reactors are scheduled to be decommissioned between 2022 and 2025. Today nuclear power produces 54% of the country's electricity. (753.4261) Greenpeace Belgium - In lifetime of the reactors may be extended old reactors which have been written the governmental agreement of Decem- over 40 years “if the security of sup- off already for two decades? By taking ber 2011, the majority parties agreed to ply is endangered”. The government only 866 MW of nuclear capacity from respect “in principle” the 2003 nuclear argued that this will secure the nuclear Doel-1 and -2 off-line in 2015, the grid phase-out law, but the closure of the phase-out calendar, so that no new will still be dominated by nuclear base- three oldest reactors in 2015 would be lifetime extensions could be granted in load power, making it very difficult to subject to an “equipment plan” about the future. Furthermore the government integrate more renewable capacity into the security of supply. At the end of decided to facilitate the investment the grid. May, the state secretary for Energy, Mel- in new flexible replacement capacity, chior Wathelet, presented his equip- especially thermal gas plants. Because Tihange-1 is a second generation PWR, ment plan. The report, made by his of the lifetime extension of Tihange-1, build in the early 1970's. An indepen- administration, concluded that till 2017- the existing gas plants become less dent review of the recent EU stress tests 2018, under extreme winter conditions, profitable. To compensate this, the performed on Tihange-1 concluded: temporary supply problems could occur government intends to subsidize new “Both the probability and the potential if the three oldest reactors would be gas plants. It remains very questiona- consequences of a severe accident closed in 2015. Nuclear plant operator ble that de European Commission will are relatively high, therefore the risk of GDF-Suez/Electrabel stated clearly allow this governmental support for new Tihange-1 is unjustifiably high. Consi- that they were not ready to invest in the fossil plants. Furthermore, in an attempt dering all facts, we recommend to shut necessary upgrades and back fittings to cut the electricity price, the gover- down Tihange-1 immediately.” (Antonia of those old reactors if they would not nment decided to place 1,000 MW of Wenish, Oda Becker: “Critical Review of get a life time extension approval for GDF-Suez/Electrabel's cheap nuclear the EU Stess Test Performed on Nuclear at least ten years. Finally, on July 4th, capacity at the disposal of the other Power Plants.” Study commissioned the minister council took the following power companies. by Greenpeace. Wien/Hannover, May decision: 2012.) Some 840,000 peoples are living * The twin units Doel-1 and Doel-2 will The anti-nuclear platform Stop Nuclear within 30 km from the Tihange NPP, be closed in 2015, after 40 years of & Go Renewables, initiated by Green- including the cities of Liège and Namur. operation as stipulated in the nuclear peace Belgium, WWF Belgium, Bond The German city of Aachen (260,000 phase-out law. Beter Leefmilieu Vlaanderen and Inter- inhabitants) is at 60 km, the Dutch city * The lifetime of Tihange-1 will be exten- Environment Wallonie, is not impressed of Maastricht (120,000 inhabitants) is at ded with 10 years, till 2025. by the governments decision, which 40 km. * The four other reactors will be closed looks like a typical Belgian compromise. after 40 years of operation, as stipulated By extending the lifetime of the 900 Source and contact: Eloi Glorieux, in the nuclear phase-out law : Doel-3 in MW Tihange-1 reactor with ten years, Energy campaigner Greenpeace Bel- 2022; Tihange-2 in 2023; Tihange-3 and investors in new and flexible production gium Doel-4 in 2025. capacity like efficient modern gas plants Email: eloi.glorieux[at]greenpeace.be or renewables, will be deterred. Why The minister council also decided to should they invest in new expensive delete article 9 of the 2003 nuclear production capacity, if they will have to phase-out law, which stipulates that the compete with the cheap electricity of 2 NucLEAR MONITOR 753 SELLAFIELD: REPROCESSING TO END IN 2018 – OR…? The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority’s (NDA’s) strategic review has confirmed what has been expected for a while.
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