Call to Australians to dump Ferguson’s nuclear waste dump plan
“The Government must stop pushing the Muckaty dump plan and establish an independent and public review of nuclear waste management options based on best science, transparent process and community inclusion and consent, as it committed to do in 2007.”
ACF is seeking community support and donations to run newspaper and billboard advertising in Melbourne, asking for him and the Government to ‘Dump the Dump’.Concerned Australians can find out more and donate at www.dumpthedump.org.au
AUSTRALIAN CONSERVATION FOUNDATION 2 July 2010 The Australian Conservation Foundation has launched a major new campaign to end Resources Minister Martin Ferguson’s plan for a nuclear waste dump at Muckaty, 120 kilometres north of Tennant Creek.
“The push to impose a radioactive waste dump on an unwilling Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory is a significant broken promise from Federal Labor,” said ACF nuclear free campaigner Dave Sweeney. “Minister Ferguson wants to revive a Howard-era plan that Labor was dead against when it was in Opposition.
“Muckaty is a long way from our east coast capital cities and these billboards are an important way to let people know that their Government is trying to dump nuclear waste on an Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory.
“The Government’s proposed National Radioactive Waste Management Bill 2010 removes procedural fairness and appeal rights from the Muckaty community, suspends key Indigenous and environmental protections and overrides Commonwealth, State and Territory laws that might delay or frustrate the opening of a waste dump.
“The Government must stop pushing the Muckaty dump plan and establish an independent and public review of nuclear waste management options based on best science, transparent process and community inclusion and consent, as it committed to do in 2007.
“If we raise more than we need for the billboard and newspaper ads, we will invite Muckaty Traditional Owners to Melbourne so they can tell their story to the Minister,” Mr Sweeney said. Contact: Dave Sweeney, ACF nuclear free campaigner on 0408 317 812.
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