| Subject: Re: Who's Who In The Nuclear Weapons Biz Re: Huh? |
| From: "http://peaceinspace.com" <truth@R.us> |
| Date: 26/02/2006, 22:59 |
| Newsgroups: alt.alien.research,alt.paranormal.crop-circles,sci.skeptic,alt.alien.visitors,alt.paranet.ufo |
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 22:49:00 GMT, "http://peaceinspace.com" <truth@R.us>
wrote:
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:17:46 GMT, "http://peaceinspace.com" <truth@R.us>
wrote:
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 14:17:03 -0500, Bob Casanova <nospam@buzz.off> wrote:
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 20:36:22 GMT, the following appeared in
sci.skeptic, posted by "http://peaceinspace.com"
<truth@R.us>:
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 15:14:52 -0500, Bob Casanova <nospam@buzz.off> wrote:
Is there something going on in Canada we should know about?
Yes, they have uranium.
http://www.ccnr.org/uranium_events.html
Bush is relying on Canadian and Australian uranium, as the USA doesn't have
any readily available uranium.
http://www.uic.com.au/nip75.htm
And Kazakhstan has the world's second largest supply.
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/kz.html
And this has what to do with the post to which I responded?
The war in the middle east isn't about oil, it's about obtaining control of
the world's largest uranium deposits, in Kazakhstan which are under Putins
control now.
Good move, eh?
You certainly don't want these jackasses getting control of Kazakhstan:
Message-ID: <k9u302pclt2lmv35u80iirp5de674kbqfb@4ax.com>
Kazakhstan to Process Uranium in Partnership with Japan,
Potential Seen to Become World’s Largest Uranium Producer
KazAtomProm, Kazakhstan’s national atomic company has established a joint
venture with two Japanese firms to extract and process uranium in Kazakhstan
and market it in Japan and elsewhere. The move brings Kazakhstan a step
closer to its goal of becoming the world’s largest uranium producer within
the next five years.
Mukhtar Dzhakishev, President of KazAtomProm signed the agreement with
Japan’s Sumitomo Corporation and Kansai Electric Power Corporation in Astana
on January 23. The new joint venture, known as Appak LLP, will develop the
Mynkuduk uranium mine in South Kazakhstan and process uranium into pellets
for peaceful nuclear energy plants at the Ulba Metallurgical Plant in
Ust-Kamenogorsk in East Kazakhstan.
KazAtomProm, Sumitomo and Kansai will have joint ownership in Appak with
65%, 25% and 10% respectively. The partners are investing US$100 million as
startup capital. Appak is expected to start pilot uranium production as
early as 2007 and launch full scale commercial production of up to 1,000
tons per year by 2010. The lifetime of the joint venture is to be 22 years
with a total production of 18,000 tons. KazAtomProm expects the uranium
mining project to recover expenses by 2013. Expected profits by then would
reach US$830 million.
Speaking at the signing ceremony, Dzhakishev explained the reasoning behind
the joint venture: “As for extraction of uranium through the in-situ
leaching method, there’s nothing Kazakhstan can learn – the method was
developed by Kazakhstan. That is why Japanese technology is expected to be
introduced at the stage of processing the raw uranium into refined uranium
to be delivered to nuclear power plants in Japan and other countries.”
The joint venture reflects a continuing expansion of KazAtomProm’s
international presence. Last year, it signed an agreement with a Chinese
company to market processed uranium there.
KazAtomProm’s uranium output was 4,300 tons in 2005, a 30 per cent increase
compared to 2004. The company is planning to increase its annual production
to 15,000 tons by 2010 making Kazakhstan the world’s largest uranium
producer. Kazakhstan’s uranium ore reserves are estimated at 1.5 million
tons, or almost 20% of the world’s total. Kazakhstan also boasts large
petroleum reserves.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) forecasts a shortage in the
world uranium market by 2010. The IAEA said the market supply would have a
deficit of up to 16,000 tons by 2015.
KazAtomProm, established by the Kazakh Government in 1997 through the
unification of all uranium and rare metals production facilities, produces
natural uranium, nuclear fuel for peaceful uses, products and byproducts of
beryllium, tantalum, niobium and alloys.
Kazakhstan Welcomes Uzbekistan into Economic Group
President Nursultan Nazarbayev said Uzbekistan’s accession to the 5-year-old
Eurasian Economic Community (EurAsEC) is a “landmark event giving us a great
chance to create a large market”.
Uzbekistan joined EurAsEC at its summit meeting in Saint Petersburg, Russia,
on January 25. The country joined Kazakhstan, Russia, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan
and Tajikistan, the five older members of EurAsEC, the most advanced
organization in the former Soviet Union in terms of synchronizing trade and
tariff regulations. The move effectively signals the merger of EurAsEC and
the Organization of the Central Asian Union (OCAU).
President Nazarbayev, attending the St. Petersburg summit, met with Russia’s
President Vladimir Putin and welcomed the new member to EurAsEC and OCAU.
The Kazakh leader believes that “with the will of the presidents and actions
by the governments, we have the chance to create a most powerful community.”
Speaking at the January 25 summit, President Nazarbayev praised EurAsEC for
the creation of “a market of countries with a population totaling 250
million people,” and proposed creating an economic committee within the
Community.
EurAsEC was conceived in Astana in 2000 and has since become instrumental in
promoting trade among its member states, all former republics of the Soviet
Union. The OCAU, a grouping of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and
Tajikistan, has been in existence under different names since 1994, but
never gained much traction. Last year, Russia joined the OCAU. This means
that with Uzbekistan’s accession to EurAsEC the two organizations completely
overlap.
New voting arrangements will come into being in EurAsEC because of these
changes. Russia will have 40 percent of the vote, Kazakhstan, Belarus and
Uzbekistan will each have 15 percent, while Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan will
split the remaining 15 percent. Uzbekistan will need to sign and approve
more than 20 agreements before the summer, and more than 40 agreements
before the end of 2006 to fully integrate with the Community.
Kazakhstan has long pursued a strategy of greater regional integration as
the most assured way to promote development and prosperity in Central Asia
and beyond. President Nazarbayev has pushed the idea of a Eurasian Union
since the mid-1990s stressing the potential for growth through such an
organization, modeled on the European Union.
At the St. Petersburg summit, Kazakhstan and Russia signed a protocol
finalizing the delimitation of the North Caspian seabed and completely
clearing the way for oil and gas exploration there. The two countries also
agreed to set up a joint group to explore prospects for joint development of
peaceful nuclear energy.
http://www.homestead.com/prosites-kazakhembus/012706.html