Antinuclear

Uranium pollution continues in South Australia, but protestors gain legal victory

David Noonan, 10 April 2010, After 10 years a group of brave and resolute anti-nuclear protesters have won a major court case against SA police in defense of their rights to defend the environment, to protest against uranium mining and to protect their rights civil and human rights – after a range of police violence was inflicted on them including unlawful imprisonment in a shipping container at the Beverley acid in situ leach uranium mine in May 2000.

The SA ALP state government has treated these good people just as badly as the previous Liberal State government in office at the time. General Atomics continues to pollute groundwater at the Beverley site through acid leaching and dumping of uranium mine wastes into groundwater without any rehabilitation of their mining impacts on our environment.

It is a credit to this fine crew they were wiling to protest the impacts of the nuclear industry, and to stand in solidarity with traditional owners who opposed the mine and had accompanied them onto the mine lease, against a multi billion dollar US nuclear corporation polluting the Australian environment and directly contributing to nuclear risks around the world and in the face of the violence and injustice inflicted on them by the state.

April 10, 2010 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | civil liberties, South Australia, uranium | antinuclear, Australia, civil liberties, nuclear, nuclear wastes, radioactive, South Australia, uranium