Australia: Rudd govt failing on nuclear dump promise
Northern Territory could get nuclear dump next week: ACF ABC News Alice Springs By Louisa Rebgetz 19 Feb 2010
The Australian Conservation Foundation says it expects the Federal Government to announce as early as next week that a nuclear waste dump will be built in the Northern Territory.
The Government has so far failed to deliver on its election promise to repeal legislation which has the power to force a waste dump on the Territory.
The ACF’s Dave Sweeney says the only sites still under consideration are in the Territory.
“I would put my money that Minister Ferguson will try and bulldoze through the imposition of a waste site at Muckaty at Tennant Creek,” he said.
“And I think if he goes down that path and if Federal Labor allows the Minister to break with clear policy we will be in deeply contested territory.”
Mr Sweeney says the Commonwealth has entered into an agreement regarding the facility with the Northern Land Council but that agreement is being kept confidential.
He believes the Labor Member for Solomon will lose his seat if the waste facility goes ahead.
“If a dump is put in the Territory, I think there will be a massive backlash and I think Damian Hale will be in a lot of trouble,” he said.
“There is no wisdom in imposing a contested nuclear waste dump against people’s wishes.”….http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/19/2824423.htm?site=alicesprings
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