Kakadu s most controversial Ranger calls it a day
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Forty years after it began in a blaze of controversy, the uranium mine surrounded by Kakadu National Park will cease processing the nuclear fuel for the last time on Friday.
ASX-listed Energy Resources of Australia has been gradually retiring aspects of the processing circuit at the Northern Territory s Ranger mine in recent weeks, and in keeping with federal law, the company will stop processing its remaining stockpiles before midnight.
The end of processing comes eight years after mining at Ranger ceased, and more than five years after ERA s biggest shareholder, Rio Tinto, sounded the death knell by declaring it would not support any further mining at the site.
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[Closing Ranger, protecting Kakadu:] new report raises issues about rehabilitation plan
Plans for cleaning up the site of the Ranger uranium mine, which closes in January – and incorporating it into Australia’s largest national park, Kakadu – are being hampered by an unrealistic five-year rehabilitation time frame, uncertainty over funding and fears about a tailings dam leaking toxic contaminants into the surrounding national park.
These are some of the issues raised in a new report, Closing Ranger, protecting Kakadu, released by the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney, the Australian Conservation Foundation, the Mineral Policy Institute and the Environment Centre NT.