Rumors of Iran-Venezuela uranium deal ‘a big lie’: ambassador

“We have uranium reserves and don’t sell or consume it,” he said, adding that the assert about shipment of uranium from Venezuela to Tehran via Damascus is “a big lie”. Velasquez crazy the statements during a press conference in a ceremony which was detained to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Venezuela’s national day on the Venezuelan Embassy in Tehran on Sunday.

Velasquez also said Venezuelan President Huqo Chavez is in good health. One of the major reasons for the negative propaganda about Chavez’s health in the U.S. and European media is to generate a public panic in Venezuela and its friendly country, Velasquez stated.

The major goal of the Venezuelan government’s opponents at home and abroad is twisting the truth in an attempt to propose that President Chavez is not able to lead the country any longer and “we should think of finding a successor for him,” he added. Velasquez said in spite of imperialists’ will to get news about Chavez’s death, he is in good health and is at present leading the country

Survey: Strong mass of Wyoming residents support uranium mining

A strong majority of Wyoming residents support uranium mining, and support for the most ordinary method of extract uranium in Wyoming is strongest among those who say they have some knowledge of how it works, according to a current survey. The survey conduct by the Wyoming Survey & Analysis Center at the University of Wyoming also found Wyoming people put job creation and tax revenue above environmental and health concerns when it comes to mineral extraction in general. Wyoming is the nation's foremost uranium producer with just one operating mine.

Cameco Corp.'s Smith Ranch-Highland mine in speak County is the largest U.S. uranium production facility, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Thirteen other mines in the state are in different stages of permitting, licensing or restarting. Wyoming's uranium reserves are mostly extracting by dissolving minerals underground and pumping uranium bearing water to the exterior a process called in-situ mining. The process has lifted concerns that it could cause groundwater contamination.

The survey conducted for the UW School of Energy Resources and presented during a latest conference on uranium issues found that 61.4 percent of the 935 people consultation supported uranium extraction in Wyoming, while 9.6 percent opposed it, and 29 percent had no opinion either way. Support for further types of energy growth in the state was stronger 80.5 percent for oil and natural gas development, 79.5 percent for coal mining and 78.1 percent for wind. Just under 4 percent opposite oil and gas and coal development, while 7 percent were against wind.

Australia’s Abbott Wants Japan Trade Deal, India Uranium Sales

Australia will try to clinch a trade dealing with Japan, boosting ties with its second-largest trading partner after China, and will sell uranium to India under a Liberal-National government, opposition leader Tony Abbott said.

The coalition will build a “strong strategic partnership” with Japan, including stronger military links and a conclusion to free trade talks, and will “overturn Labor’s ban on uranium exports,” Abbott said today in a speaking to the Asialink-Asia Society forum in Canberra.

Abbott’s coalition, tied with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s Labor party in the polls in the lead up to a ballot that must be called by April, will also “work enthusiastically with China” and will not pretend the two nations have “important differences in the way we do things,” he said.

Australia, which is the third-largest uranium producers behind Kazakhstan and Canada, has the world’s biggest known uranium reserves, according to estimates from the World Nuclear Association. Rudd’s government does not allow uranium to be sold to India for energy use because the South Asian country hasn’t agreed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.