From: Chris Chaplin & Jenny Heland-Chaplin [chrisjen@techinfo.com.au]
Sent: Thursday, 15 August 2002 11:06 PM
To: ecita.sen@aph.gov.au
Subject: Submission to Ranger and Jabiluka Senate Inquiry

Senate Inquiry <ecita.sen@aph.gov.au>

Name:        Chris Chaplin
Address:    22 Foley Ave, Preston VIC 3072
Date:          14 August 2002

Submission to Ranger and Jabiluka Senate Inquiry

I ask the Senate Inquiry to recommend the immediate cessation of all
uranium mining in Australia.

If the Senate Inquiry is unable to adopt this position, I ask that it
recommend the immediate cessation of all uranium mining within Kakadu.

If the Senate Inquiry is unable to adopt this position either, I ask
that it recommend:
- 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 revegetated.