NSW cabinet backs uranium exploration
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Shades of John Howard here.All Abbott has to do when in Govt, is repeal the acts governing the Enrichment of Uranium and the establishment of nuclear power plants in Australia. Whats more he will most likely have the numbers to ram them through. Don’t rule out a Double Dissolution to gain senate control.
Neville
NSW cabinet backs uranium exploration
Uranium exploration in NSW is one step closer to becoming a reality after Premier Barry O’Farrell’s cabinet ticked off on a proposal to overturn a 26-year-old ban.
The Seven Network today reported that cabinet had agreed to reverse the state ban, after Mr O’Farrell flagged the change in December.
The NSW parliament will now have to approve legislation repealing the ban.
A week after Labor’s national conference to remove its ban on uranium exports to India, Mr O’Farrell said he was open to overturning the exploration ban, and would take the proposal to cabinet.
”We should as a state know what resources exist here,” he said at the time.
”It makes no sense not to know what resources are in the state.
”Overturning the ban would then enable a sensible and mature discussion to be held as to whether we go into mining of those resources.”
Comment was being sought from Mr O’Farrell’s office.
NSW Opposition leader John Robertson accused Mr O’Farrell of a ”massive backflip”, after he ruled out overturning the ban last August.
”The people of NSW didn’t vote for Barry O’Farrell so he would set up uranium mines in their backyards,” Mr Robertson said.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/nsw-cabinet-backs-uranium-exploration-20120214-1t406.html#ixzz1mLPYlqIX