Last of the Djok Clan Has a Message for Uranium Mining Companies: No
July 14th, 2007Via: Sydney Morning Herald:
JEFFREY LEE is not interested in the soaring price of uranium, which could make him one of the world’s richest men.
“This is my country. Look, it’s beautiful and I fear somebody will disturb it,” he says, waving his arm across a view of rocky land surrounded by Kakadu National Park, where the French energy giant Areva wants to extract 14,000 tonnes of uranium worth more than $5 billion.
Mr Lee, the shy 36-year-old sole member of the Djok clan and the senior custodian of the Koongarra uranium deposit, has decided never to allow the ecologically sensitive land to be mined.
“There are sacred sites, there are burial sites and there are other special places out there which are my responsibility to look after,” Mr Lee told the Herald.
“I’m not interested in white people offering me this or that … it doesn’t mean a thing.
“I’m not interested in money. I’ve got a job; I can buy tucker; I can go fishing and hunting. That’s all that matters to me.”
Mr Lee said he thought long and hard about speaking publicly for the first time about why he wants to see the land incorporated into the World Heritage-listed national park, where, he said, “it will be protected and safe forever”.
how long til this guy has a “hunting accident”? Or a tragic car crash?
But we all know what’s really going to happen. Mr Lee will be incarcerated for alcohol and child abuse by one of Howards gang. The later then being free to rape and pillage Kakadu as they see fit.
I feel like going up there and helping him to physically defend the place, for all the good it would do…
the man is obviously suicidal – it’s really only a matter of time before he gets suicided
Jeffrey Lee seems to have no clue of what’s gonna happen, but I think we should support him, mediaticly. If anyone get’s any material that may help, upload it. Believe in earth preservation over world consumerism.
Keep the love alive!
cheers