Tony Abbott calls for selling uranium to India
Australian opposition calls for India uranium sales Australia’s Federal Opposition leader Tony Abbot says Australia should sell uranium to India.ABC Radio 15 Jan 2010
The incumbent Rudd government fulfilled an election promise and outlawed uranium sales to India because Delhi has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. But Mr Abbott says selling uranium to India is a good idea……..
The former Howard government had agreed to Indian uranium sales on the back of a United States-Indian agreement allowing the sale of uranium for civil purposes. http://www.radioaustralianews.net.au/stories/201001/2792805.htm?desktop
Vital for aborigines to participate in climate change action
Environment jobs vital for aborigines, says UN study, Sydney Morning Herald YUKO NARUSHIMA 15 Jan 2010
ABORIGINES need access to jobs in the environment sector if they are to benefit from any global attempt to curb climate change, says the author of a UN report out today.
The State of the World’s Indigenous Peoples says climate change hurts indigenous people disproportionately, and in some places threatens their existence. Continue reading
Airport scanners: radio frequency type better than X ray type
Sorry, Uncle Sam, I refuse to be ionized The Daily Observer (Canada) By DR. GIFFORD-JONES15 Jan 2010
“………Transport Canada reports that more than 40 scanners will be installed in Canadian airports. Fortunately, all of these scanners will use “millimeter wave” technology. This means travellers will be exposed to radio frequency waves that produce a three-dimensional image of a person’s body to detect hidden weapons or explosives. Radio waves are not the same as harmful X-ray ionizing radiation to be used in the U.S. Continue reading
Australian Super stops being ethical about uranium mining
Time to rethink our superannuation funds. One way to participate in the movement against the uranium/nuclear/weapons industry is to use our superannuation wisely. It’s a sad day, when the last large super fund drops its principles, and succumbs to muddy thinking about ethics and sustainability.
AustralianSuper was one of the last large superannuation funds to offer an ethical exclusion on sustainable investment options…………The ethical exclusion meant mining companies such as Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton were out because they operate uranium mines
Australian Super drops ethical exclusion , Sydney Morning Hrrald LUCY BATTERSBY 15 Jan q2010
AUSTRALIA’S largest superannuation fund is removing an ethical exclusion from its sustainable investment fund because the range of listed companies that fits the criteria is too narrow. Continue reading
Opposition to NASA’s radiation testing on squirrel monkeys
National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) plan to subject as many as 28 squirrel monkeys to a massive dose of gamma radiation………Because of the biological differences between species, results of radiation experiments on monkeys cannot be reliably applied to humans
PETA Calls On Space Agency to Ground Cruel and Wasteful Tests and Use 21st Century Research Methods Instead
PETS Media Center
January 13, 2010
Washington — Alongside a person wearing a space suit and holding signs that read, “Stop Radiation Tests on Monkeys,” PETA members will protest outside the National Air and Space Museum in response to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) plan to subject as many as 28 squirrel monkeys to a massive dose of gamma radiation. Continue reading
Uranium mining’s threat to beautiful Australian animal
BHP Billiton’s plan to dig the world’s biggest uranium mining hole at Olympic Dam aspparently, (they say) requires them to have a desalination plant at Point lowly, Spencer Gulf , South Australia.
This will mean the extinction of Australia’s uniquely beautiful Sepia apama Giant Australian Cuttlefish. (photo by Helen Crawford from http://groups.google.com/group/point-lowly-action
by aussiecuttlefish -14 Jan 2010 – excerpt from comment on this site at Uranium and the giant cuttlefish « Antinuclear “…..The Giant Australian Cuttlefish is iconic to Australia, but more so it is endemic to the 8 kilometre section of coastline that has the most ideal conditions for placement of egg-sacs – the next generation. Continue reading
World Future Energy Summit displays Solar-powered Aircraft
Solar-fuelled Aircraft to be Displayed at World Future Energy Summit Khaleej Times T. Ramavarman14 January 2010 ABU DHABI – A model of the first-ever solar powered aircraft will be showcased by the Swiss delegation at the exhibition to be held in connection with the World Future Energy Summit beginning here on January 18.
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