Protest at BHP Billiton office
Grenfell St, Adelaide
Friday, May 1, 2pm onwards

On May 1, BHP Billiton will release the Environmental Impact Statement for its planned expansion of the Olympic Dam (Roxby Downs) uranium/copper mine in SA. Come along to this May Day protest to voice your opposition.
At 2.00pm a mock BHP executive will launch the EIS complete with details of everything the company plans to get away with:
·    The mine operates under the SA Roxby Downs Indenture Act which exempts it from key environmental and Aboriginal heritage laws that apply everywhere else in SA.
 
·    BHP Billiton plans to make Roxby the largest open-cut mine in the world. Export of uranium is expected to increase from an average of 4,000 tonnes per year to 19,000 tonnes. Enough plutonium to build 2,850 nuclear weapons each year.
 
·    BHP Billiton proposes an increase in water consumption from 35 million litres daily (from the Great Artesian Basin) to 150 million litres daily (up to 42 million litres from the Great Artesian Basin, the remainder from a proposed desalination plant at Port Bonython). The total amounts to over 100,000 litres of water every minute of every day.
 
·   The production of radioactive tailings, stored above ground, will increase seven-fold to 70 million tonnes annually. The tailings contain a toxic, acidic soup of radionuclides and heavy metals.
 
·    Electricity demand for the mine will increase from 120 megawatts to 690 megawatts – equivalent to 42% of South Australia’s current total electricity consumption.
Let your voice be heard, and lets make sure BHP is held accountable to the same laws as everyone else.
This is a combined  FoE (Friends of the Earth) and ANTSA (Anti Nukes Team SA) Action

Please contact: kathy.whitta@foe.org.au or Amanda naturearthlove@hotmail.com