Lone Ranger: Kakadu uranium miner faces fewer safety checks

By Peter Hannam
Updated August 28 2016 - 11:11pm, first published 4:40pm
Edge of the wilderness: Monitoring of the Ranger uranium mine's effect on neighbouring wilderness areas has been reduced as the mine prepares to close.  Photo: Glenn Campbell
Edge of the wilderness: Monitoring of the Ranger uranium mine's effect on neighbouring wilderness areas has been reduced as the mine prepares to close. Photo: Glenn Campbell
Atmospheric testing of radon and other radioactive dust from the project has been reduced. Photo: Glenn Campbell
Atmospheric testing of radon and other radioactive dust from the project has been reduced. Photo: Glenn Campbell

The controversial Ranger uranium mine in the Top End has had its independent government oversight depleted just years before its closure in a move the local Aboriginal organisation describes as "absurd".

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