Uranium mining could slash emissions: Campbell.


The federal Environment Minister, Senator Ian Campbell, has called on the Western Australian Government to lift its ban on uranium mining in order to help fight climate change.
Senator Campbell says it is imperative that uranium, rather than coal fired power stations, be used to generate electricity.
He says fighting climate change relies on expanding the world's nuclear capacity.
"The known reserves of uranium under the ground in Western Australia could, if it replaces burning of coal or oil, save around 6,000 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions," he said.
"That's enough saving to minimise or abate or neutralise all of Australia's emissions for the next 10 years."
Senator Campbell says there are at least 150,000 tonnes of uranium in Western Australia.
"To sit on top of this resource because Peter Garrett and Alan Carpenter and a few of their Labor comrades have some sort of 1960s ideological hang up is totally obscene in a world that is so challenged by the prospect of dangerous climate change," he said.
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