Selous yamegwa: Ni kwa ajili ya uchimbaji uranium; Hekta 34,500 ndizo zilizolengwa!

[MartinDavid]

for sure this is stealing a company get 200 million USD and the government get 5 million US!!!

what the hell is this..????

 

[Peleus Mwesiga]

Realy we are in deep sheet TZ!That serou is among the 7heritage of the world.Do we need to damage our precious wealth at this tyms while we have experienced a lot of untorelable contract in minding sector!
Plz people involved in this,should think that issue again.

 

[kensolth05]

Tanzania 'will mine uranium on Selous Game Reserve'

The Selous Game Reserve in southern Tanzania is one of the largest fauna reserves in the world
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Tanzania will go ahead with plans to mine uranium in the UN World Heritage site Selous Game Reserve, the natural resources minister has told the BBC.

Ezekiel Maige said he told the recent UN World Heritage Centre meeting it would mean the park's size would need to be reduced by less than 1%.

The UN body said it would approve the plans, as long as environmental assessments were carried out.

Money made from the mining would help in the park's upkeep, Mr Maige said.

According to the UN cultural organisation Unesco, the 5m hectare-Selous Game Reserve in the south of Tanzania has large numbers of elephants, black rhinos, cheetahs, giraffes, hippos and crocodiles - and is relatively undisturbed by humans.
'Regrettable'

In an interview with the BBC Swahili Service, Mr Maige said the uranium mining project was in its infancy, but it would only affect about 0.69% of the current World Heritage site park and would be an important source of income for the country.
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Radiation levels will remain the same - the minerals in the ground are already emitting a degree of radiation, but it is not dangerous for human beings”
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Firms could expect to earn $200m (£125m) each year from mining uranium from the site, of which $5m would be paid to the government, he said.

Some of this would be able to help with the costly business of managing the park, and it would provide employment for about 1,600 Tanzanians.

During the annual meeting of the World Heritage Committee, the minister said concern had also been expressed about the Undendeule Forest Reserve, to the south of the Selous Game Reserve.

But Mr Maige, who also serves as Tanzania's tourism minister, insisted there would be no impact on that forest either.

He said it currently costs the government about $490,000 a year to manage it and the income from mining would help pay for guards to stop poaching.

He said Tanzania did not need permission from Unesco to go ahead with its uranium mining plan, but the East African nation wanted to take into account the organisation's recommendations.

"The uranium project will go ahead," he told the BBC.

Unesco spokesman Lazare Eloundou Assomo told the BBC it would be "regrettable" if Tanzania started uranium mining without the UN body's approval.

He did not say how long the assessments would take.

The World Heritage Committee wanted Tanzania's own assessment to be approved by the country's environmental agency, Mr Maige said.

The second requirement was for a UN team of experts to visit the area to give their own recommendations for the protection of the ecosystem.

The minister said a decision would then be taken at next year's WHC meeting about changing the boundaries of the Selous Game Reserve.

Studies so far had shown that there was no need for concern about radiation poisoning from the uranium extraction in the area, Mr Maige said.

"Radiation levels will remain the same - the minerals in the ground are already emitting a degree of radiation, but it is not dangerous for human beings, the animals or the [Mkuju] river," he said, adding that the uranium would be processed abroad.
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[Mwamanda]

for sure this is stealing a company get 200 million USD and the government get 5 million US!!!what the hell is this..????

2.5% only why why should we get peanuts?from the project?

 

[Roulette]

Kuna post zingine mbili about the same article, ngoja Invizibo azichange zote.

 

[Rugaijamu]

Hivi Tanzania tuna akili kwel?kila siku kuchimba tuu...mbona hatunufaiki na hivyo tulivyokwisha anza kuchimba...kabla ya kuchimba hyo uranium tufanye kwanza tathmini ya mafanikio tuliyoyapata kwenye migodi yetu mingine,la sivyo tutajikuta tumewatajirisha wengine,sisi wenyewe tukibakia fukara na mahandaki kila kona!

 

[sanjo]

Are we really learning from the past fraudulent mining contracts? Look at the kind of expected revenue that will accrue to the Government from the deal versus unexplained risk factors of nuclear disasters. So long the government is not prepared to serve Tanzanians in preserving our natural resources let us wait for the serious generation and leadership to come that will be able to seriously manage our heritage.

What do we want to achieve in this trasaction? Where is good governance in management of our natural resources?

 

[ismathew]

Selous inatakiwa ibaki kama ilivyokuwa,Hao magamba awana cha zaidi bali ni ufisadi unawasumbua. hayo madini ya uranium yangewachwa
kama yalivvo. Kwani awayaoni madhara yake yanayotokea dunia mabadiliko ya hali ya hewa yanasababishwa zaidi na polution kutoka
katika nuclear power plant duniani. Na sio kama wewe utachimba na kuuza uranium basi utajiona hupo salama, pili watatengeneza atomic
bomb ambalo litauwa watu na kuleta madhara katika hewa.sasa hivi dunia iko katika mchakato wa kuvifunga vinu vyote vya umeme
vinavyotumia uranium. ujerumani ikiwa ya kwanza baada ya miaka kumi na moja vinu vyote vitakuwa vimeshafungwa. Na nchi zingine
zinafuata. mpango huo ni wa magamba kuna ufisadi na iran katika hilo.

 

[Informer]

5yrs later. Media Tanzania inafanya nini? Wote mnaimba MCC kisiasa?

Nini kinaendelea hapa?

 

[KWEZISHO]

MODS hebu unganisha hizi habari!