Antinuclear

Darwin to Adelaide Railway Planned for Transport of Imported Nuclear Waste

discussions were under way with the Yanks to store the US Nuclear Waste in Australia, and transport it with the Railway to ‘secure places’ in the NT Centre.

New Matilda, Markob 24/02/10 “… the Darwin to Alice train, built for no purpose other than a nuke waste train (it certainly, at a cost of $2billion-the interest on which is around $300k/day- had no economic upside or value, with no rudimentary business plan, and with one tourist train/day, minimal tourism value also. Its current operators only have expertise in waste transport) Will that cost of the train line be included in the costs of this storage, or will this go down as just another hidden taxpayer subsidy?

dazza 25/02/10

I remember quite clearly back when the Darwin to Adelaide Railway was being sincerely discussed by the Howard mob, that the fact that the Yanks had stopped all work on their Yucca Mountain depository, (NIMBY reared it’s head) and that discussions were under way with the Yanks to store the US Nuclear Waste in Australia, and transport it with the Railway to ‘secure places’ in the NT Centre. This was going to be a Golden Goose for Australia, with money coming in for hundreds if not thousands of years. Some people have very short memories.

February 27, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, secrets and lies, uranium | aboriginal, antinuclear, Australia, nuclear, nuclear weapons, renewable, secrets and lies, uranium