QRC pushes for Australia to resume uranium mining in Queensland

Derek Barry
Updated October 2 2019 - 3:52pm, first published October 1 2019 - 11:50am
The QRC wants Australia to resume uranium mining as it was here at Mary Kathleen until the 1980s.
The QRC wants Australia to resume uranium mining as it was here at Mary Kathleen until the 1980s.

The Queensland Resources Council has told a parliamentary inquiry local uranium could be mined sustainability and economically but another economist says nuclear power can't compete without a carbon price.

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Derek Barry

Derek Barry

Editor, the North West Star

Editor of the North West Star Mount Isa since January 2016. Prior to that, an editor at several regional southern Queensland newspapers. Passionate about telling local stories. Comes with a strange accent to due an Irish accident of birth.

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