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Those days are long gone. France's nuclear industry is fueled by a legally-mandated diversified supply, chiefly from Kazakhstan, Australia and Canada.
by Bayart 5y ago
Those days are long gone. France's nuclear industry is fueled by a legally-mandated diversified supply, chiefly from Kazakhstan, Australia and Canada.
- tomdell 5y agoExtract value and leave the locals alone to deal with the consequences - how progressive.
- nexuist 5y agoGreat job moving those goal posts when your original premise was called out. What exactly do you want France to do in Niger to atone for their sins? Build infrastructure, fund businesses, make deals with their government? In other words, you want to solve colonialism with more colonialism?
- lb0 5y agoHow cynical, if that was what how colonialism there and everywhere else was like, wow..
- tomdell 5y agoLocals should have been better compensated, more taxes should have been paid to the local government, costs related to environmental cleanup should be paid for by Areva. The business that went on there was fundamentally extractive and unfair to Niger - a result of a drastic power imbalance. I fail to see how my "original premise was called out" or how I "moved my goalposts", but great job defending neocolonialism online - you really owned me!