Greens Senator Ludlam has set a new low in fear-mongering with claim about radiation effects on U workers (Media statement distributed 21 October)
Claims by
Greens’ Senator Scott Ludlam that ‘Uranium mining has killed a lot of its workforce’ are
without any factual basis, the Australian Uranium Association said
today.
“These are
outrageous claims and it is deeply troubling that Senator Ludlam should feel he
can make them so casually. He produces
no evidence and no data. Perhaps that is
because he has none,” said Michael Angwin, Chief Executive of the Association.
“The responsible
course for the Senator to take now is to withdraw his claims and to apologise
to the uranium industry. And he should
publicly acknowledge his responsibility to get the facts right.”
“Senator
Ludlam has set a benchmark by which all his commentary on uranium can be
measured: believe nothing he says unless he produces some evidence,” Mr Angwin
said.
Senator
Ludlam made his claims in an ABC interview about the National Radiation Dose
Register.
There have
been two recorded fatalities in the Australian uranium industry, neither of
them due to radiation.