A CLP politician who publicly opposed the opening of a uranium mine in the Territory privately agreed to help the mining company.

Opposition health spokesman Matt Conlan wrote in a series of emails to mining firm Cameco: "I am happy to help where I can."

The emails have been obtained by the NT News.

Mr Conlan yesterday said he would comment only through the CLP media office and put down the phone. He then sent out a press release on the subject.

Mr Conlan came out against the opening of the Pamela-Angela uranium mine in Central Australia a few days before the Araluen byelection in Alice Springs last year. But email messages to then mine project manager Stephan Stander the previous year show he had a different attitude.

Mr Conlan says in the emails that he will make 50 copies of a pro-Angela newspaper article and letterbox drop them at properties carrying NO U-MINE protest signs. He also pushes for a radio advertising campaign.

"I believe a sustained radio campaign of 15-second 'Cameco Fast Facts' aired on the commercial stations in Alice would be a great way to get the positive uranium message out to the mums and dads and those who simply don't understand the issue but are prepared to be convinced."

Mr Conlan says this would be a "great way to outmuscle" mine opponents, such as the "comrades" from the Greens and Arid Lands Environment Centre.

"This could be seen as me colluding with Cameco so it could be fraught with danger".

Mr Conlan was a $50,000-a-year broadcaster on Alice Springs-based 8HA before becoming a politician and offers to introduce Mr Stander to the station's "sales guys".

"Just in case you're wondering, I'm not on the radio station payroll".