Greens Senator warns on divisive effects of nuclear waste dump on Aboriginal land
Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam says the plan to build a radioactive waste dump in the region has become extremely divisive.
Aborigines discuss nuclear proposal on tribal land By Phil Mercer,BBC News, 3 march 2010, Sydney Aboriginal groups have held a public meeting to debate controversial plans to build Australia’s first nuclear waste dump on tribal land….
The proposal has caused deep divisions within the indigenous community.
Ministers have indicated that the nuclear dump would not be built if landowners opposed it.
In the next six years, nuclear waste that Australia sent to Europe for reprocessing will be returned…..
“It already risks setting families against families and the government has not bothered to try to and bring the whole community along. They have picked off a handful of people, got some signatures and now they are going to try and force it through,” Mr Ludlum said.
“We have had a small 10 MW research reactor operating in Australia since the late fifties. The industry and the government never bothered to investigate waste storage scenarios.
“So, now in 2010 they are now desperately casting around for an Aboriginal community who will take that legacy waste from the last few decades,” he said.
BBC News – Aborigines discuss nuclear proposal on tribal land
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