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Jabiluka outside Kakadu

To: "Nigel Sterpin" <>
Subject: Jabiluka outside Kakadu
From: Niels Poul Dreyer <>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 20:27:10 +1000 (EST)
Dear Niegil plus birding folks

Jabiluka is on special lease outside the Park. It was part of the conditions
for the creation of Kakadu NP that this area was excluded. It is wrong to
assume this project will set a precedent to mining  in other NPs. 

Niels

>1)     The Greens do concern themselves with landclearing and overfishing!!
>2)     Jabiluka is on World Heritage listed land, so I don't know how the
>Liberals got away with it. In fact, I have heard that the international
>Heritage group will be investigating Jabiluka.
>3)     In itself Jabiluka is not a major problem because it is a relatively
>minute amount of land...but it sets a precedent to mine on any national or
>internationally listed land.
>----------
>> From: Niels Poul Dreyer <>
>> To: Jill Molan0 <>
>> Cc: 
>> Subject: Re:Why Jabiluka petition?
>> Date: Thursday, August 13, 1998 18:09
>> 
>> Dear Jill and Ausbirding
>> 
>> I have followed the dabate about Jabiluka mine etc. THe greens are
>obsessed
>> with this issue, while massive landclearing and overfishing occur almost
>> unnoticed. I know this is not a political correct statement, but I do not
>> care. Questions to ask:
>> 
>> Why is it more important to stop this mine, which will affect a small
>area
>> under controlled monitoring, more important that other issues such as
>global
>> warming, forest fires in Indonesia, Three Gorges Dam and Yangze flooding
>> caused by deforestation?
>> 
>> Cane toads are on the way to Kakadu, a huge threat to the wildlife in the
>> park. Maybee revenue from Jabiluca can be used to combat this problem?
>> Aboriginals get a lot of money from Energy Res. Not all views on this
>matter
>> has been heared or debated.
>> 
>> Why can Nuclear energy not be used to solve the Greenhouse Issue which
>> threaten our biodiversity? Thechnology is likely fix the problems with
>the
>> waste?
>> 
>> Before those issues are given higher priority I will not join the so
>called
>> political motivated green groups. I belong to Birdlife Int. and other
>bird
>> organisations who stay out of sexy political stuff.
>> 
>> Regards from a concerned environmentalist.
>> 
>> Niels Poul Dreyer
>> Niels Poul Dreyer
>> 10/35-37 Denman Camp Road
>> Scarness, Qld 4655
>> Australia
>> 61.7.41.248132
>> 
>
>
Niels Poul Dreyer
10/35-37 Denman Camp Road
Scarness, Qld 4655
Australia
61.7.41.248132


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