Review: Climate confusion, AREVA, UK nuke wastes ..
Review: Australia:Tony Abbott waffles, Liberals in Climate Change Denial, but want nuclear power in order to combat climate change – but no carbon price or tax – Work all that out if you can! Government still won’t re-instate Racial Discrimination Act -( because it still plans nuke waste dump on aboriginal land ?). The terrorist who planned attack on Lucas Heights nuke reactor now out of gaol, (but banned from Australia). Small starts on solar energy in WA and ACT.
International. French nuclear company AREVA in financial trouble – pinning its hopes on international sales of reactors. UK govt ignores its own experts’ advice on nuclear wastes.Pro-nukers try to overturn Wisconsin law. French reactors with cooling problems. Anti-nuclear movement in Armenia. Depleted uranium. Iraqi govt officials suspect depleted uranium as cause of rising child cancers. – the week that has been
Australian opposition policy on climate, nuclear, is a ‘farce’
Turnbull brands Abbott an ETS ‘weathervane’ * THE AUSTRALIAN December 08, 2009 “………former Liberal Party leader Malcolm Turnbull declares it’s time for some straight talking on climate change. …….I tell a few home truths about the farce that the Coalition’s policy, or lack of policy, on climate change has descended into. Continue reading
Rudd govt promised to repeal Radioactive Waste Management Act
Nuclear is cleanest power source- senator ABC Alice Springs By Aislin O’Connor and Kirsty Nancarrow 4 Dec 09 -…….. an anti-nuclear group in Alice Springs says this week’s change in the Liberal Party leadership makes it even more likely that a nuclear waste facility will be forced on the Territory.
The Beyond Nuclear Initiative has reiterated its calls for the Federal Government to fulfil its 2007 election promise to repeal the Radioactive Waste Management Act.The group’s Natalie Wasley says it is a year since a Senate Committee recommended the laws forcing a nuclear waste facility on the Territory be overturned.”
And this comes amidst an increased push by the Liberal Party to develop and expand the nuclear industry in Australia,” she said.”So we believe that if the nuclear waste dump in the Territory goes ahead, there’ll be increasing pressure on those same communities to host an international high-level nuclear waste dump some time in the future.”
ABC Alice Springs – Nuclear is cleanest power source: senator
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