From: Gillian Blair [gillianb@standard.net.au]
Sent: Monday, 12 August 2002 2:14 PM
To: ecita.sen@aph.gov.au
Subject: Submission to Ranger and Jabiluka Senate Enquiry, from G.
Blair, SWEAG

Senate Inquiry 

Name:   Gillian Blair, President, South West Environmental Action Group
Address: 649 Warrumyea Rd, Panmure, Victoria, 3265.
Date: 12.08.02

Submission to Ranger and Jabiluka Senate Inquiry

I ask the Senate Inquiry to recommend:
- a ban on acid leachate mining of uranium, which is not allowed in most
areas of the world because of its long-lasting environmental impact on
future generations
- an overhaul of the present environmental regulatory regime, to provide
greater transparency and independence;
- greater involvement of traditional Aboriginal owners in the
  establishment and oversight of any new environmental monitoring and
reporting regime;
- more statutory monitoring points at both operations and a greater
frequency of monitoring;
- event-based monitoring, whereby weather events trigger immediate
response monitoring;
- that the so-called 'limit' for uranium concentrations detected in Kakadu
National Park downstream of the operations be reduced from 5.8 parts per
billion to 0.5 parts per billion.
- return unprocessed ore down the Jabiluka decline, which can be cemented
in and revegitated