{"id":11,"date":"2009-02-28T17:34:27","date_gmt":"2009-02-28T06:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/sovereign-risk\/"},"modified":"2009-02-28T17:34:27","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T06:34:27","slug":"sovereign-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/sovereign-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Sovereign Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/au.biz.yahoo.com\/090228\/31\/24xa4.html\">Traditional owners continue ban on Koongarra uranium mining<\/a><br \/>\nSaturday February 28, 2009, 4:00 pm<\/p>\n<p>Traditional owners in the NT&#8217;s Kakadu region have decided to continue a ban on mining at the $5 billion Koongarra uranium deposit.<\/p>\n<p>The French company Areva wants to mine 14,000 tonnes of uranium at the site that is surrounded by Kakadu National Park.<\/p>\n<p>The lucrative deposit sits three kilometres from Nourlangie Rock &#8211; a sacred art site and major tourist attraction.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of traditional owners, the Northern Land Council, Areva and the Territory and Federal governments met in Jabiru and Cooinda this week to discuss the future of the deposit.<\/p>\n<p>Traditional owners decided mining should not go ahead at the site.<\/p>\n<p>By law the matter can be revisited, but the NLC says it has been told by traditional owner Jeffrey Lee that he never wants to discuss the company&#8217;s proposal again.<\/p>\n<p>The Land Council also says Mr Lee is still keen for the site to incorporated into Kakadu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional owners continue ban on Koongarra uranium mining Saturday February 28, 2009, 4:00 pm Traditional owners in the NT&#8217;s Kakadu region have decided to continue a ban on mining at the $5 billion Koongarra uranium deposit. The French company Areva wants to mine 14,000 tonnes of uranium at the site that is surrounded by Kakadu &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/sovereign-risk\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sovereign Risk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.australianuranium.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}