DUMP FERGUSON NOT NUCLEAR WASTE
by Jim Green, 28 August 09
Four sites in the NT are under consideration by federal resources and energy
minister Martin Ferguson for a national nuclear waste dump. Not one of the
four sites was short-listed when a national site selection study was
undertaken in the 1990s, informed by scientific, environmental and social
criteria. Thus Labor’s commitment to handle the issue in a scientific manner
has gone out the window. As a 2008 Senate Committee report noted: “One of
the most disturbing features of the current legislation is that it severely
curtails the role of sound science in the process of choosing a site. It
abandons the Commonwealth’s commitment to basing the process on the best
science, in favour of basing it on choosing a location with the least legal
capacity to dispute the outcome.”
Later this year, Mr Ferguson is expected to wave around a consultant’s
report purporting to demonstrate that his favoured site – Continue reading
Call for Northern Terriitory to get wildly rich , with nuclear power
Alderman calls for NT to host nuclear plant
NORTHERN TERRITORY NEWS, by NIGEL ADLAM
August 28th, 2009
AUSTRALIA’S first nuclear power plant should be built in Darwin or Katherine, a council alderman said yesterday.
Former Alice Springs deputy mayor Murray Stewart said a nuclear plant would make either community wildly rich. Continue reading
UN expert on Australia’s racism
UN says indigenous intervention is discriminatory, racism entrenched in Australia
THE AUSTRALIAN By Julian Drape | August 27, 2009
Article from: Australian Associated PressTHE United Nations special rapporteur on indigenous rights says the intervention into remote Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory is clearly discriminatory, and that there is “entrenched” racism in Australia. Continue reading
Aboriginals back Cooktown wind project
Indigenous backing for Cooktown wind project
Traditional owners have signed an agreement with US company National Power to build a wind farm south of Cooktown on Cape York in far north Queensland. Continue reading
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