Uranium export is bad news

To export uranium ore to China, or anywhere else, is very bad news not just for Australia but also for the entire world.

The justification "uranium for energy" is meaningless and deceptive.

Australia owns close to 40 per cent of all uranium ore available in the world.

It is incumbent on such a large potential supplier to set an ethical example.

Nuclear power plants are (a) extremely costly to build and dismantle; (b) provide energy that is not "cleaner and greener"; (c) has the major problem of storing radioactive waste; and (d) in Australia which is not geologically stable as claimed is not a renewable energy.

Exporting the ore to other countries, on the pretense of having a moral responsibility to do that, means losing control over its final destination and use.

We could end up with nuclear weapons everywhere.

Minister Martin Fergusson and the Rudd ALP Government, think again.

Klaas Woldring, Pearl Beach