Antinuclear

Australia: Nuclear Waste Dump, Obama Visit, Uranium Expansion.

It’s all happening in hyping the nuclear industry in Australia. Expensive advertising by the nuclear lobby (Environmentalists for Nuclear Power), big nobs promoting it (e.g. Bob Hawke), and  Ziggy Spinowsky everywhere.

What great timing! Just as the Australian government plans to put a radioactive nuclear waste dump on aboriginal land, President Barack  Obama is to visit Australia to discuss uranium, while BHP Billiton is about to launch a huge expansion of its Olympic Dam uranium mine.

Let’s not forget that Australia is still signed up to the The Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), by which as a uranium supplier, Australia would be  obliged to take back radioactive  waste from sales of uranium to the U.S.A..

(Australia is also obligated to take back a small amount of our own Lucas Heights radioactive waste from UK, – but that is not tied to uranium sales, and that doesn’t have to be on aboriginal land).

February 22, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, Christina reviews, climate change - global warming, energy, uranium | aboriginal, antinuclear, Australia, BHP, BHP Billiton, climate change - global warming, energy, nuclear, nuclear costs, nuclear wastes, radioactive, uranium