Would you allow a secretive US arms company to mine uranium in your backyard? Neither would we! So help us tell our politicians that Australia doesn't need more uranium mines.
It's easy to approve a new uranium mine when it is out of sight and out of mind - but just because we don't see a place every day doesn't mean that we should risk ruining it forever.
That's how the Environment Minister Peter Garrett and Resources Minister Martin Ferguson are able to approve environmentally destructive projects like General Atomics new Beverley 4 Mile mine, 500 kilometres north of Adelaide.
We need your help to send a backyard message to Minister Ferguson, in his home electorate of Batman.
If this acid leaching mine opens, Australia will have five uranium mines either working or approved, with more in the pipeline. Along with the expansion of other mines it adds up to a potential trebling in Australia's uranium exports - three times the waste, three times the worry, three times the risk.
The Australian Government allows our uranium to be sold to nuclear weapon states such as China. Uranium sold for nuclear power frees up uranium for nuclear weapons so our exports directly or indirectly fuel growing nuclear instability and intensify threats across our region and around the world.
That's why it's important to let our politicians know, in their own backyards, that this massive expansion of uranium mining must stop.
With your help, we are proposing to send a postcard outlining this decision to every voter in Batman, the backyard of the Resources Minister Martin Ferguson.
All you have to do is sign on to our Backyard Message to Batman campaign to get the message out.
For every signature that we receive one postcard will be sent to a voter in Batman asking them to bring their local member under control.
It's as simple as that.
First published on GreensBlog
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