Left in the Dust - uranium mining in Niger

[CapitanoGUC]

uranium mining Nigers ??? :-O

[ChloeJolie7]

Shit happens..

[Nironakamedus]

Well we will run out of oil in 50 years.... what can we even do? well we can use nuclear power plants instead, and from there develop better technoligies

[siriusstar10000]

I've added it to my favorites

[N3anderthaler]

They pose a serious thread in Petten Netherlands also.

[aman111501]

Greenpeace gives me

A headache

1 Nuclear power is cleaner than solar

2 Carbon taxes are things to suck money

From our pockets

3 sulfur cools the planet

4 Green power can never fully power the world

[Bobisawesome100]

@aman111501 Good on sir

[mageboi97]

Crying about low level radiation poisoning when half of Africa has fucking AIDS

[harryfaber]

@mageboi97 But no effective medicines because business considers profits to be more important than people.

How about the 'low level radiation poisoning' left by mining in Limousin, now the responsibility of Areva as well?

[canisdormit]

this is what happens when we allow multinational corporations, but don't worry...looks like nuclear energy is presently taking a big bite out of the industrial world's ass

[Bobisawesome100]

Lol I love Green Peace and their sheer stupidity

[fuckitsgay]

@Bobisawesome100 stupidity ??

[Bobisawesome100]

@fuckitsgay falsification of facts, hypocrisy in the extreme, general idiocy over the years. I can give you links and such if you want to see, but I don't want to go Google the stuff, and the most of their videos show exactly what I mean.

[Huffdev]

GREENPEACE:(

[SalmataGirl]

this is sick. how could someone do this?

[feelytouchy67]

This is so typical. The film states how the uranium from the mines will power a million homes thousands of miles away, while the nearby village has unlit streets, and its inhabitants suffer from uranium related diseases. It is like the Niger Delta where oil multinationals extract immense amounts of oil (and make billions), but the locals suffer from the pollution this causes, and get little if any benefits. True capitalism would not force innocent people to enrich others. This is forced serfdom!

[zassounotsukushi]

4 out of 5 samples surpassed WHO radioactivity limits and the locals are upset that it didn't bring more prosperity.

Has an industrial facility ever existed where locals didn't feel that way? Secondly, of course Areva should be within all regulatory limits. But Greenpeace's evidence for this is weak. Is that seriously ALL they could find?

This is clearly one of the most responsibly managed mines in Africa. I mean really, this is Africa and they're complaining like a bunch of union workers

[Akhara]

Shame on Areva

[newpoliticon]

France receives from its former colony, Niger at least 30 percent of its needed uranium. If France loses this source of raw materials that amount to a disaster for the nuclear industry in France and other countries that draw their fuel assembly from France.

With the kidnapping of the Areva engineers last week, the resistance fighters, the atomic industry have hit to the core!

[atomunfall]

It looks like - In the promotion of uranium, the nuclear industry is often just as careless in the disposal of large quantities of nuclear waste.

Seemingly this is knowingly illness and death of countless people accepted.

[Emsilbea]

This makes me sick. The people of Niger will be left with an even lesser chance of escaping poverty (not that they really had one in the first place) and poisonous land to live in, for which they really have no alternative. These companies are effectively parasites, making money off dangerous resources for an unsustainable and short-term source of energy that they really, honestly don't know enough about.

[EpiDemic117]

"carry an unseen but deadly threat" What you mean radiation by nature? Hahahahaha! The readings on that device shows no more than what is emitted by nature. Uranium in fact IS an element that can be found by nature. in small quantities it is harmless. The sun emits more radiation than that. As well as a glass of water.

[0PsycoDad0]

@EpiDemic117 You aren´t serious, right?

[smartverity]

@0PsycoDad0 Sadly, they are and if the planet were left in the hands of people like that then the human race would have already ceased to exist. Whilst there is people like you and I to care then we still have a grain of hope for survival.

[xuanhien1988]

I think this situation only happens in countries where authorities are either not capable of managing their own resource or deeply corrupted. In other developed countries which also export uranium like Australia, everything sure must be much better? After all, nuclear power is too important to be abandoned.

[Das0s]

@xuanhien1988 3rd worlds will always be explioted like this by the developed countries. -.-

[GB200879]

The greatest niger mining site is in Arlit and shows great dimensions. You can see it in google earth and you look for "Arlit".

[ErikaKuen]

It´s so unfair that this poor people are paying the consecuences of this environmental contamination for the irresponsability of the companies that are doing the work and they are not taking the special care that is required. It can be possible!! But the sad thing is that we can do anything!! :(

[Zeus1DJ]

These companies bring hate to my mind..

[hjjh1212]

@Zeus1DJ The worst thing is, they are all over the world.

[PeaceProfit]

Using public money to empower The*People as energy providers, via home and small business power production and savings schemes via alternatives and conservation, is the fair and equatable solution toward energy independence and global security, leaving distribution of that power and the materials needed to create it as the profit medium that energy companies are best suited to fulfill.

C.H.A.O.S.

[MonyMG1959]

Nuclear energy as bad as energy produce by oil

[hjjh1212]

@MonyMG1959 Not really. If no humans were radioactively infected in the process whats the problem?

[MonyMG1959]

@hjjh1212 Oil spills are bad enough. Uranium is more dangerous than what you see in this video. France's waste is in cooling tanks, in USA in protected containers underground. Nobody in late 1800s or early 1900s dpredicted all the problems cause by oil, only the comfort that it will provide. Nuclear plants as the one in Chernobyl can have leaks.

[usbfuse]

@MonyMG1959 lol blame france for the radiation in Niger

[AllFireworks]

Batter than global warming...

[ultimazer1]

@AllFireworks: wtf? as long as it's not anywhere near your home, ey? The energy is all around us. Renewables are essentually free once installed and prices are falling rapidly. They are the only way to go for any sane human.

[hjjh1212]

@AllFireworks Why don't we lock you up in a room filled with uranium, feed you minimal radioactive food, give you highly poisonous water, and forget about you?

[AllFireworks]

@hjjh1212

I think that this is a smaller problem than global warming that will effect all living creatures on the earth if we don't stop it. I find the destruction of the ecosystem worse than a city, but neither is good.

[gusto68]

this is the cause of capitalism as we know it!

[SconeRabbit]

You guys should also post a video about Depleted Uranium!! It's a war crime, but no one bothers to carry out research into how deadly it is! There has been research, and a lot of evidence suggests it is a risk to everyone's health!

[0PsycoDad0]

@SconeRabbit I seriously hope this´ll go viral these days. It´s complete insanity!