The government of the day rejected these recommendations and we ended up with the local government approving a dry tailings situation that is very hazardous to health. By the way, the Inquiry recommended 2 metres of water over the tailings to prevent tis and an impervious membrane to prevent seepage. The Ranger mine operators put in acidic tailings that destroyed parts of the clay blanket that was supposed to hold the wet tailings to prent drying out in dry seasons causing serious radiation and dust hazards. It did but a number of mudslide abalances in the waterlogged catchment created a tsunami wave that over topped the dam causing the destruction of towns many kilometers downstream. Engineers watching the dam reach full capacity ignored these obsetvations saying they trusted the full concrete wall to hold. In that case farmets noticed cows moving away from the waterlogged reservoir edges.

I lead evidence to the Ranger Uranium Environmental Inquiry in 1976 that the design of their tailings dam could fail in extreme weather events citing the Viont Dam disaster that wiped 3 towns off the map in Italy in the early 70’s. The current nattle to avert a national disaster at Oroville Dam spillway failures in California, a state that is in top ten ind GDP if it was considered a nation. But in the end only a handful players are left without even reaching the goal and server has to restart. Some server want a 15 day cycle, some 30, some 60 days. But in all the servers I always found out something that made that server break the game at some point or another. Great question from Alistair Leith … The Kakadu example is a good real time yardstick for scientific, environmental, Indigenous and social impact authenticity. So I have been playing ECO for years now, on and off.

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