Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities, Senator Conroy. How does the EPBC approval for the expansion of the Olympic Dam uranium mine qualify, as the environment minister suggested yesterday, as the toughest set of environmental conditions ever imposed when the conditions are much less than those imposed on the Ranger mine here in Australia, with the tailings at Ranger having to be buried in a pit and isolated for 10,000 years rather than 10 years, as is the case for the Olympic Dam expansion.