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No mention of a new uranium leaching project in SA http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23718874-1702,00.html
However I believe the biggest such deposit is at Yeelirrie in the State of WA where it is an imprisonable offence to dig uranium.
I wonder if Voelte's dummy spit over ceramic fuel cells and geothermal was due to the tax on condensate in the Budget.
All the signs point to the ETS being a dog's breakfast. The fact that the Kiwis have already included forestry (presumably carbon negative) in their scheme suggests the pollies want to use it for rural pork barrelling. Evidently the Australian scheme will have major get-out-of-jail cards if things done in 2009 can be used as deductions in 2010. Despite Garnaut's talk of the need for drastic carbon cuts already I suspect Ferguson's coal union mates are devising ways to baffle us with bulldust to make the scheme toothless. Even worse I suspect Rudd will try to pull a few carbon accounting swifties the same as his predecessor Howard. Is he really any better?
Good old WA - thats the way to treat those stinkin' uranium miners !
Woodside seemed to have lost interest in alt energy a while back - I don't think it has anything to do with condensate taxes. They'll no doubt get the money back as part of some GTL incentive scheme.