The director of Langer Heinrich Uranium, Garnet Halliday, allegedly instructed his environmental consultant not to take part in 2 public discussions on uranium mining this week, according to an environmental organisation. Earthlife Namibia invited nuclear policy expert Dr David Fig from Johannesburg to give a lecture on Monday evening in Windhoek titled "Why is uranium mining allowed inside a National Park?" and on Tuesday in Swakopmund. Earthlife invited first director Halliday of Langer Heinrich Uranium, and a subsidiary of Australian mining company Paladin Resources. After his decline the company’s environmental consultant Ms Alex Speiser was invited to attend the discussion. "Earthlife is in position of a document in which Halliday instructed Speiser not to attend the meeting", said Ms Bertchen Kohrs of Earthlife. In his instruction to Speiser on how to deal with Earthlife’s personal invitation, Halliday allegedly wrote to her: "Please do not respond and as said before you should not attend the meeting. They will bait you and try to put you in a difficult position."

For Earthlife the company’s dodging of public debates clearly indicates that uranium mining is by far more dangerous than so far admitted. "Obviously there are dangers, which shall remain hidden", Kohrs said. A scientific institute, the Institute for Applied Ecology in Germany, recently concluded in their thorough evaluation of the environmental assessment that the uranium company was "grossly playing down the dangers of its mining plans in the Namib Naukluft Park".