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Recent Updates and Activities of the FSE

No mine dump far enough, no corporate big enough

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Feisty northern suburbs granny takes up the cudgels for poor mining communities. She is also the recipient of the Eco-Warrior award at the inaugural Eco-Logic awards.
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Acid sludge poses a serious risk to Gauteng

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Thousands of people face evacuation from Gauteng due to toxic sludge from abandoned gold mines laced with high radiation levels.

Emergency plans are being drawn up to stop toxic water flowing into Johannesburg.

Acid Mine water, the result of groundwater flowing through underground shafts, is decanting from an old Rand Uranium mine near Krugersdorp and rising by half a metre a day beneath Johannesburg.

Government has yet to approve a plan to tackle the crisis, nearly a year after its own task team urged emergency intervention.

The delay has provoked criticism from civil society and private industry, who say government rejected a viable mine water treatment plan two years ago.

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Mitigation measures at Uranium Mines

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Uranium mining operations have high impacts on environment and society, and can lead to deterioration of health of workers and communities. Uranium mining activities are increasing in Africa, where mining is not always strictly regulated and controlled. Mitigation of negative impacts from uranium mines by national governments and international mining companies can have a positive effect on society and environment.
An assessment of the mitigation measures is addressed in the report "Uranium from Africa" by World Information Service on Energy (WISE)  and Stichting Onderzoek Multinationale Ondernemingen (SOMO)
Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations.

The report assesses what mitigation measures governments and industry are taking in Namibia, South Africa, and the Central African Republic. Practices are compared with Canada and Australia, where regulation is more strict. 

"It is surprising that South Africa has no specialised institutions which have adequate knowledge on the impacts of (uranium) mining operations and can monitor, educate, and advise on all mining-related health and environmental issues".

EXTRACTS from the report are contained in this article.  The FULL REPORT is available to download

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FVO reageer op berigte oor megaslikdam

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Verlede week se berigte in Sake 24 oor die bedreiging wat boere en omgewingsgroepe vir Mine Waste Solutions se beydrywighede in die Stilfontein-gebied inhou, het die volgende reaksie van die Federasie vir ‘n Volhoubare Omgewing ontlok:

Die artikels van Sake 24 (gepubliseer in Rapport, Beeld en Miningmx), het ernsitge twyfel gewerp op die karakter en motiewe van me Mariette Liefferink, uitvoerende hoof van die Federasie vir ‘n Volhoubare Omgewing (FVO), en die FVO.

Die aanname word gemaak dat die FVO saam met vier grondeienaars werk om hulle te help om hoe pryse vir hul grond te bekom deur die lewe vir Mine Waste Solutions (MWS) “ondraaglik” te maak.  Dit is na ons mening ‘n verdraaiing van die feite en ‘n wanvoorstelling van die waarheid.

Ons is nooit die kans gegun om op die artikels te reageer voor publikasie nie.  Ons is van besliste mening dat die FVO ernstig te nagekom is in die artikels en dat Liefferink se reputasie deur wanvoorstellinge geskaad is.

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Reporter bullies FSE

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A report by Jan de Lange has made serious claims about the Federation for a Sustainable Environment (FSE), its CEO and the activities in which it engages.
Liefferink claims Mr de Lange "used bullying tactics, accusations and threats" while interviewing her.

The reporter asserts that four landowners, assisted by FSE CEO, Mariette Liefferink, are attempting to disrupt operations at Mine Waste Solutions (MWS), a First Uranium Corporation subsidiary.  The disruption is said to be through “trivial complaints and public pressure, so that First Uranium will eventually buy their land and end the unpleasantness”.
De Lange further alleges that Liefferink uses her position on the board of the National Nuclear Regulator to “launch an unrelenting attack on the mega tailings dam”.

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Sponsorship

The Federation for a Sustainable Environment is sponsored by Public Environmental Arbiters

Legal support is provided by The Legal Resources Centre

The FSE's website is sponsored by The Custodian Project

To assist with sponsorship in cash or in kind, email the FSE

 

Acknowledgement

The Federation for a Sustainable Environment acknowledges the support of -

Marianne Valenti.
Garfield Krige, African Environmental Development.
Prof. Leslie Stoch
Dr. Jan Myburgh (Onderstepoort)
Dr. Francois Durand (University of Johannesburg)
Prof. Elize van Eeden (North West University – Vaal)
North West University (Vaal)
Save the Vaal
The Legal Resource Centre
Green Grants
groundWork
Prof. Johann Tempelhoff (North West University – Vaal)
WISE
Earthlife Africa (Jhb)
Prof. Tracy Humby (Wits Law School)
Prof. Dr. Frank Winde (North West University – Potchefstroom)
Isabel Weiersbye on behalf of the Ecological Engineering & Phytotechnology Programme, The School of Animal, Plant & Environmental Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.


Environmental Impact Management strategy

The Federation for a Sustainable Environment represents the NGO Sector on the Steering Committee for the DEA's Environmental Impact Assessment and Management Strategy.

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Reports have been revised, based on comments from various sectors (August 2011) 

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