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"Sandgroper" <woodbudgie@KNICKERSgmail.com> wrote in message 
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> "Brad" <brad@someplace.com> wrote in message 
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>> Mr Carpenter has an ad campaign claiming that Radio active Uranium Ore 
>> will be going past schools to the freo port.
>> What a load of rot. Any ore out of the Kimberly which is where the 
>> Uranium is goes to a Kimberley Port where there
>> are rail lines. Uranium Ore is not radio active. If it was there would be 
>> thousands of dead workers which handle the
>> ore by hand every day of the week.
>
> Bullshit , uranium ore does have low levels of radiation in it's natural 
> state (U235 & U238 ) and it is refined into yellow cake that has a higher 
> concentration of radioactive elements.


Yes, low levels. Not particularly dangerous.


> Also Yellow Cake if fairly toxic to people , it is a heavy metal , just 
> like mercury and lead.
>

Somewhat less toxic than lead, in fact, and people drive around with that on 
trucks just fine.

> Why don't you get your facts straight , I bet you don't even live in WA , 
> and have no idea where are the iron ore ports are located , not to mention 
> the fact that the rail lines from the iron ore depostis to the ports are 
> PRIVATELY OWNED , so you will have quite a problem trying to get access to 
> those rail lines as was the case recently .
>
>>
>> Nuclear Waste is a by product from nuclear reactors.
>> I cannot believe the media in WA not looking at these false ads at all.
>> People are believing it in the masses.
>
> Then the media should also be looking at the false and deceptive adverts 
> that Barnett  is using.
>

Perhaps. But that was not what was being discussed.


>>
>> WA has to be the worst educated state in Australia. People are believing 
>> that
>> uranium ore is radio active because the premier is saying that.
>
> Physics is not one of your strong points is it ? , perhaps you missed 
> those classes and opted to go and get pissed out of your tiny brain at all 
> those Young Liberal parties , I have heard all about them from other 
> sources than the media.
>

We weren't discussing parties.


>> Come on Perth media do your job!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>>
>> The Libs ought to do an ad from South Aust showing miners handling the 
>> uranium ore.
>
> Typical Liberal idealist and how to treat the workers  , getting the mine 
> workers to expose themselves to dangerous workplace practices all in the 
> name of money for big businesses , I wouldn't be surprised if you expected 
> the mine workers to work without any personal protection equipment ( PPE)
>

Complete change of subject.


>> Or ever gone campaign up north. You've probably walked over uranium ore.
>
>> WA has 40% of the world's uranium deposit. Get it out of the ground and 
>> sell to China
>> and fix their carbon problems or leave it in the ground and sell coal to 
>> China which
>> is what is causing pollution problems the world over.
>>
>> If WA was to sell uranium they would get the world carbon levels down. 
>> Surely its worth doing.
>
> Yeah , and pollute other parts of the world with radioactive nuclear waste 
> , particulary China , they don't give a stuff about pollution , all they 
> want is to exploit the workers and  generate a massive profit.
>

Ahhh yes, the crank rant and topic change.


>> And the money it would bring to the state would be $15 billion per year 
>> which could pay for
>> all the problems that WA now has. Would get unemplyment down even 
>> further.
>
> Correction , it would NOT bring massive amounts of money to the state Gov 
> , all the uranium mining  profits would go to Barnett's mates in the big 
> business sector.

And that's why miners in WA earn $100k +


> All the crap about uranium  you are dribbling about is not for the benefit 
> of the WA community , it is  all for the Liberals and Barnetts mates in 
> the multinational companies , particularly the mates of Malcolm Turnbull 
> who have already formed a company to build nuclear reactors in Aust.

WA is built on mining. Large scale mining can only be done by big companies. 
Malcolm Turnbull lives in Sydney's eastern suburbs, not WA.


>
> It was the same as the Ken Court's proposed iron ore port at Oakagee , it 
> went belly up because everybody knew it was for the benefit of Ken and 
> Richard Court and all their business mates at the big end of town , after 
> the Libs got turfed out of Gov , the Labor Gov put it on the backburner 
> until recently so as to stop all those Liberal arseholes from getting even 
> richer.
>

We were discussing yellowcake.