Britain’s nuclear strategy threatens destruction of Kalahari
Posted on November 8, 2009
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Namibia has some of the planet’s richest uranium deposits and expects to become the third largest uranium producer and largest exporter within five years.
The mines are all expected to be in open pits up to 200 metres below the desert sands. With their waste heaps, acid plants and giant slurry ponds, they will extend over hundreds of square kilometres. “Large areas of the desert will be inevitably devastated,” says Bertchen Kohrs, director of the Namibian environment group Earthlife. “They will do immense damage. We fear that there will be major contamination of the ground water supplies.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/08/nuclear-power-namibia-mining
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