Niger has revoked the operating licence of French nuclear fuel producer Orano at one of the world's biggest uranium mines, the company said Thursday, in a move that highlighted tensions between France…
  • eldavi@lemmy.ml
    9·
    6 days ago

    i’m guessing that, normally, the french empire would empire its way back into uranium access on favorable terms; but given the news that renewables have starting overtaking nuclear power in france and kazakhstan overtaking african uranium sources, i wonder if they’ll bother.

    i’m betting that they will considering how badly they’re losing their proxy wars with russia in nearly all the african parts of the french empire and all of provocative rhetoric that macron has been leveraging against russia; particularly regarding ukraine; so maybe in a year or 2 we’ll be reading news articles of the old nigerian rebels suddenly overpowering the new nigerian government.

    • freagleEnglish
      7·
      6 days ago

      I think the difference today is that French has a far lesser chance of getting it’s access back today than at any prior time in the last 500 years

        • freagleEnglish
          2·
          5 days ago

          Emotionally yes. Materially, I don’t see how the French pull it off.

  • naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca
    7·
    6 days ago

    Considering the fact that uranium prices have been shooting up for the past year, the fact that this mine has been sitting idle until last week was seen by Niger as an indicator that the French were snubbing Nigerien uranium (that could have generated jobs, tax revenues, etc.).

    Good move by Niger imo