Energy Watch: Australia Inciting Global Destruction With Proposed Uranium Mine Project

Protesters against the proposed construction of the uranium mine project in Wiluna town in the northern Goldfields raised Australia is inciting global destruction should it continue to push with the project.

A group of people gathered outside of the head office of the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) to protest the agency's decision to back the proposed uranium mine of Toro Energy, a relative newbie to the mining industry.

"It is almost like a corporate blindness to the fact that uranium mining leads to waste and we do not know what to do about it," Adrian Glamororgan, one of the protesters, was quoted as saying by The West Australian.

The Wiluna uranium mine project will become Western Australia's first in five years after a banthat constricted uranium mining in the area was lifted.

Uranium is what is used to fuel nuclear reactors. Global sentiment on the use and safety of nuclear reactors as a main energy source is currently being deliberated after the catastrophic meltdown of Japan's Fukushima nuclear reactors in 2011, triggered by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami that hit the country in March.

But Mr Glamororgan is more worried that Australian uranium may be used in the production of devastative nuclear weapons. Moreso, Australia could be contributing to global mass destruction.

"In the last 30 to 40 years our culture has shifted so corporations are saying that it doesn't matter who we hurt overseas," he said.