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This 6 page paper looks at the management of the uranium mining at Kakadu National Park (KNP) which is also a World Heritage Site and argues that the bias for nuclear energy on the part of the Austrian government prevented sufficient positive or negative incentives to be out into place to protect the environment in which the mining was taking place. The paper looks at the controversy over the site and the limited regulation that were out into place. The bibliography cites 6 sources.
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6 pages (~225 words per page)
File: TS14_TEuranmin.rtf
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1977 when construction on the Ranger mine began, but the mining of uranium in the area started with a number of small mines between 1956 - 1964 (Aplin, 2004). When
consider the development of uranium mining and regulation of the mining in the area from the perspective of environmental economics this is also a good example of how different needs
have to be balanced in the way that protection takes place and how government interests will bias any protection in this case a bias toward nuclear energy may be seen
as impacting negatively on the protection of the area. We can argue that this bias prevented the government from developing sufficient incentives for environmentally friendly operation, but that pressures came
from elsewhere. The Ranger mine has mining allowed under the Atomic Energy Act 1953 Section 41, following the Uranium Environmental Inquiry (also known as the Fox Inquiry) that took
place under the Environmental Protection (Impact of Proposal) Act 1974 (ERA, 2002). The Ranger and Jabiluka operational approvals are found within the Authorizations A82/3 and A98/2 which were initially given
in pursuance of the Uranium Mining (Environment Control) Act (NT), however, with the repeal of this act the same authorisation are now effected by the Mining Management Act (ERA, 2002).
These are the primary tool by which operations are controlled. At the time mining started Kakadu National Park was neither a National
park nor a World Heritage Site. The area was proclaimed as a national Park in three stages in 1979, 1984 and 1987, while it was inscribed as a World
Heritage Site in 1981, 1987 and 1992, each stage related to the national park stages. However, did not prevent the granting of a licence to mine with the Jabiluka operation.
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