Uranium miner coaxed government to water down extinction safeguards

Cameco did not have to show if WA mine would lead to extinction of tiny fauna before its approval on 10 AprilA multinational uranium miner persuaded the federal government to drop a requirement forcing it to show that a mine in outback Western Australia would not make any species extinct before it could go ahead.Canadian-based Cameco argued in November 2017 the condition proposed by the government for the Yeelirrie uranium mine, in goldfields north of Kalgoorlie, would be too difficult to meet. Continue reading...