Senate Inquiry <ecita.sen@aph.gov.au>

Name: Donald B. Reid
Address: PO Box 896, Bridgetown WA 6255
Date:13 August 2002

Submission to Ranger and Jabiluka Senate Inquiry

I ask the Senate Inquiry to recommend:
- an overhaul of the present environmental regulatory regime, in order to provide greater transparency and independence;
- greater involvement of traditional Aboriginal owners in the establishment and oversight of any new environmental monitoring and reporting regime;
- more statutory monitoring points at both operations and a greater frequency of monitoring;
- event-based monitoring, whereby weather events trigger immediate response monitoring;
- that the so-called 'limit' for uranium concentrations detected in Kakadu National Park downstream of the operations be reduced from 5.8 parts per
billion to 0.5 parts per billion;
- return unprocessed ore down the Jabiluka decline, which can be cemented in and revegetated.