Nuclear unnecessary: gas is the transition to renewables
Coal and nuclear just hot air, the immediate answer is gas Sydney Morning Herald PADDY MANNING October 17, 2009 People are looking for a cleaner energy source, one they can believe in, and enough to keep the lights on and power electric cars and desalination plants by 2050, when Australia’s population will be 35 million. Continue reading
Corruption charges follow uranium company’s deals with S.A. govt
Arkaroola uranium hunter on bribery charges HENDRIK GOUT17/10/2009 The owner and director of the largest shareholder in the company which the state government allows to explore the Arkaroola wilderness for uranium, Marathon Resources, is awaiting trial on charges of having bribed a government minister. Continue reading
Central Australia’s radioactive waste threat discussed internationally
Radioactive sites get overseas pressure ABC News By Kirsty Nancarrow i Oct 16, 2009
Anti-nuclear campaigners from Central Australia are hoping to put international pressure on the Commonwealth to abandon plans for a nuclear waste facility in the Northern Territory.
Natalie Wasley from the Beyond Nuclear Initiative says it is providing a briefing and a DVD to be screened and distributed to delegates at a conference in Sweden this weekend on the management of radioactive waste.
She says the Australian Government’s failure to consult people who are likely to be affected by the four sites being considered is out of step with what other countries are doing.
Radioactive sites get overseas pressure – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Western Australian government’s “blind spot” about uranium mining
Greens sceptical about uranium mine assessment ABC News Oct 16, 2009 The Greens say they doubt the Western Australian Government will be swayed on the level of environmental assessment it is proposing for a uranium mine on the Goldfields.The Government last week extended the time available for public comment on the assessment level for BHP Billiton’s Yeelirrie mine by four weeks.
WA Greens’ Senator Scott Ludlam says while he encourages more people to respond within the consultation period, he is sceptical it will make a difference.”Nobody seriously believes this State Government or this Environment Minister is going to take a look at the evidence that the community will put on the table …………… Government has got a particular blind spot around uranium mining ……….
Greens sceptical about uranium mine assessment – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Misleading headlines about nuclear
Peter Beattie warms to nuclear energy
Jamie Walker | October 17, 2009Article from: The Australian“………..Mr Beattie’s chief reservation about nuclear power is not on principle or safety grounds — it is the expense of building reactors. Just off the plane from Los Angeles, where he is Queensland’s trade commissioner for North and South America,……..Asked to what extent nuclear would be a part of Australia’s energy future, he said he doubted it would amount to much. “There is an argument for nuclear,” he said. “But I think, frankly, the new energies will leave nuclear behind. I mean, on all the assessments I ever saw when we were in government nuclear was too expensive — we are too small a population in Australia.”
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