Comments on: Help save Arkaroola – News http://www.flindersranges.com.au/2009/12/21/help-save-arkaroola-news/ The definitive Flinders Ranges website Mon, 06 Sep 2010 05:44:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tim http://www.flindersranges.com.au/2009/12/21/help-save-arkaroola-news/comment-page-1/#comment-1222 Tim Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:34:19 +0000 http://www.flindersranges.com.au/?p=2000#comment-1222 The Uranium may well be worth millions of dollars, the tourist-spend implications of any downgrade to Arkaroola's status, as an ECO-tourism destination, will be felt right through the Flinders Ranges and possibly the state. This would be ongoing and irrecoverable. The flow-on cost may make the short-term royalties the government gets from mining Arkaroola insignificant over time. Some politicians can only think as far as what is on their desk in front of them! The Uranium may well be worth millions of dollars, the tourist-spend implications of any downgrade to Arkaroola’s status, as an ECO-tourism destination, will be felt right through the Flinders Ranges and possibly the state. This would be ongoing and irrecoverable. The flow-on cost may make the short-term royalties the government gets from mining Arkaroola insignificant over time.

Some politicians can only think as far as what is on their desk in front of them!

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