AREVA: ‘When it is about energy, there must be no taboo subjects’ (Except Niger)

French nuclear corporation AREVA is launching what it calls a ‘Community Advisory Council’ (CAC). The Council will apparently ‘raise greater awareness of the benefits of clean energy technology, including nuclear energy and renewables’ and ‘build a working group of representatives from influential organizations who will informally advise the company on energy and sustainability issues’.

We’ll move swiftly over AREVA once again greenwashing nuclear energy as ‘clean’ and instead focus on what Laurence Pernot, vice president of communications at AREVA, had to say about his CAC:

When it is about energy, there must be no taboo subjects. All issues, including the tricky ones, must be on the table. And when it is about nuclear energy in particular, public concerns must be taken seriously and addressed honestly.

No taboo subjects? All issues, including the tricky ones, must be on the table? Concerns must be taken seriously and addressed honestly?

If this is the case then why, in the month since Greenpeace announced it had found radioactive contamination on the streets of a village close to AREVA’s uranium mines in Niger, has there not been a single word on the subject from AREVA?

Is radioactive contamination in Niger a ‘taboo’ subject for AREVA? Is this ‘tricky’ issue on the table or not? When will these concerns be 'taken seriously and addressed honestly' by the company?