[Closing Ranger, protecting Kakadu:] new report raises issues about rehabilitation plan
Date Time [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 Univers...