Australian women’s anti-nuclear peace walk to Canberra
Our aim is to communicate how the whole nuclear cycle is unsafe; it will leave a toxic legacy for over 200 000 years.
FootPrints For Peace Australia | Indymedia Australia, 1 May 2010, On 13 March 2010 five women aged from 37 to 69 began walking from Brisbane to Canberra to take a message to the prime minister. The message conveys the hopes and dreams of the Australian people, asking that we take steps towards a nuclear free future. Continue reading
Volcano- a mere hint of what a ‘limited’ nuclear war would be like
Climate scientists have applied lessons from volcanic eruptions like Tambora to estimate how nuclear fallout would affect the global climate. The projections aren’t good.
What the Volcano Can Teach Us About Nuclear War, GOOD, Alexandra Bell, Ben Loehrke on April 30, 2010 Think the ash cloud was bad? That’s nothing compared to what would happen if India and Pakistan exchange just a few nukes… Continue reading
Australian Senate delays its report on planned nuclear waste dump on Aboriginal land
Senate’s Muckaty nuclear dump report delayed, ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)By Gina Marich Apr 30, 2010 A Senate committee report into the proposed nuclear waste dump at Muckaty Station, north of Tennant Creek, has been delayed. Continue reading
Nuclear caste system, and nuclear doubletalk
Washington maintains a double standard that allows its friends
. “What is important is to preserve the right of non-nuclear states to the peaceful uses of nuclear weapons,– said Egypt’s Abdelaziz.
The nuclear caste system , Foreign Policy, by Colum Lynch , 30 April 2010. Next week, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will meet in New York with diplomats from more than 180 countries at the eighth review conference of the 1970 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (pdf), the Cold War pact that determines who can have nuclear weapons and who can’t. Continue reading
Australian government attempts world’s worst practice on Northern Territory nuclear waste dump
Elders from the Ngapa, Milwayi, Ngarrka, Yapayapa and Wirntiku clans have come all this way to reject the Government’s claim that any one person has the exclusive rights to say yes or no to the waste dump.
Proposed solution lights a lasting fuse, Greens Senator SCOTT LUDLAM
Northern Territory News (20,Sat 01 May 2010)
Some of Australia’s most deprived to host toxic time capsule
THE Federal Government has betrayed Territorians with its decision to put a nuclear waste dump at Muckaty Station Continue reading
USA just does not know what to do with nuclear waste
Last month, the U.S Department of Energy convened a “Blue Ribbon” commission led by former lawmakers and regulators to study what to do next.
SRS communities angered by nuclear waste decision | ajc.com By Bob KeefeThe Atlanta Journal, April 28, 2010 -ConstitutionWASHINGTON — For decades now, workers and local residents have fully expected that giant canisters of nuclear waste put into temporary storage at the Savannah River Site would eventually be relocated from their backyards to a permanent nuclear repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Continue reading
Melbourne anti nuclear waste dump protest targets Martin Ferguson
Nuclear dump opposed from Muckaty to Melbourne , Indymedia Australia, 30 April 2010, Community
opposition to Martin Ferguson’s nuclear waste dump at Muckaty Station continues to grow. About 40 people convened at short notice outside Martin Ferguson’s electoral office on High Street Preston in a colourful protest of speeches, song and street theatre. ‘Martin Ferguson’ gets ‘splashed’ with Muckaty nuclear waste in the street theatre performed outside his office. Continue reading
New cancer research to replace flawed Three Mile Island study
It will be an update of a previous study now considered flawed because it looked only at people who died of cancer and didn’t count those diagnosed with cancer but still alive.
New cancer study of areas around U.S. nuclear facilities brings relief in TMI area, PennLive.com, By DAVID WENNER, The Patriot-NewsApril 29, 2010,” Continue reading
Liberal Party stalling Australia’s Renewable Energy Policy
Coalition puts a spanner in the renewable works, Sydney Morning Herald LENORE TAYLOR May 1, 2010 THE future of Australia’s only remaining incentive to invest in renewable energy is under a cloud after the Coalition raised concerns about proposed government amendments to the 20 per cent renewable energy target. Continue reading
Victoria’s community owned Hepburn Wind shows the way to renewable energy
Small players spinning wheels of renewable energy, Sydney Morning Herald, CHRIS ZAPPONE, April 28, 2010 Although the prospects of a national emissions trading scheme appear to have receded further over the horizon, one community is determined to make renewable energy a reality. At least locally.Community-owned Hepburn Wind today completed a contract for the delivery of two 2 megawatt wind turbines to be installed at Leonards Hill, south of Daylesford in central Victoria.The locally operated enterprise, billed as the first of its kind in Australia, is expected to supply almost all of Daylesford’s and Hepburn Shire’s electricity needs – enough for 2300 homes by the beginning of next year. Hepburn wind farm believed to be the first in Australia | Energy
UK’s Sellafield nuclear waste found in Cumbria landfill
Radioactive waste from Sellafield dumped in landfill, BBC News 30 April 2010, – An investigation has begun into how bags of radioactive waste from the Sellafield nuclear complex in Cumbria ended up in a landfill site….. Continue reading
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