Emails show Yeelirrie uranium mine approved a month before 2019 election after pressure from Cameco
By national science, technology and environment reporter Michael Slezak and the Specialist Reporting Team s Penny Timms
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JanJanuary 2021 at 1:19am
The Yeelirrie uranium project has a long and sordid history and a sod has not yet been turned.
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The dry red dirt around Yeelirrie station looks utterly inhospitable.
Sitting about 800 kilometres from Perth, in the far north of Western Australia s Goldfields region, the dry and remote land is dotted with spinifex, some small bushes and trees and not much else.