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Australian news, and some related international items

Australia’s Northern Territory intervention a guise for taking Aboriginal land

Indigenous summit meets | Green Left Weekly, July 4, 2010 By Sue Bolton, Melbourne………Yorta Yorta woman Monica Morgan told the conference that the laws being used against indigenous people in the NT are similar to the laws being used against her people in the 1930s. The NT intervention was a guise to undo the Land Rights Act that Aboriginal people all over Australia fought for……” Indigenous summit meets | Green Left Weekly

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South Australia’s Honeymoon uranium mine to be taken over by Russian govt

Uranium One’s Honeymoon Well uranium project in South Australia will move into Russian government hands.

Uranium One to ARMZ? | Industrial Fuels and Power, 9 July 2010,  Uranium One, the second largest uranium company in Canada, is reportedly being taken over by ARMZ, a division of the Russian state nuclear company Rosatom. Continue reading

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Gillard backs Nuclear Salesman Ferguson, not Science

Government-commissioned scientific reports have identified Woomera in South Australia as the best site. The Tennant Creek area is a known hotspot for earthquakes.But Ms Gillard said she would stick with the decision announced by Resources Minister Martin Ferguson in February……………..

Gillard dumps Muckaty in it after refusing to reconsider | Northern Territory News July 8th, 2010 Continue reading

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Gillard is pro Muckaty Nuclear Waste Dump, but Protest Grows

ACF last week launched its “Dump the Dump” campaign, raising money to campaign against the Muckaty proposal in the lead-up to the federal election.


Gillard OK with nuclear dump process, Sydney Morning Herald, GABRIELLE DUNLEVY, July 7, 2010 -A process that will see Australia get its first nuclear waste dump against the wishes of the site’s traditional owners will not change under Prime Minister Julia Gillard. Continue reading

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Northern Territory govt wimping out on nuclear waste dump issue?

A spokeswoman for the Territory Government last night told the ABC the nuclear storage issue was mentioned but was not discussed in detail.

Labor missed chance on nuclear dump: CLP ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) 8 July 2010, The Northern Territory Opposition says the Henderson Government missed a golden opportunity during the Prime Minister’s visit to take a stance against a nuclear waste dump being built in the Territory. Continue reading

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Abundant Solar energy going to waste is USA’s heat wave

America sizzles in heat, but remains unclear on tapping into it | BrighterEnergy.org,  8 July 2010, As much of the East Coast wilts in a heat wave at the moment, there seems to be a lot of solar energy going to waste. In Washington DC, the heat may be making it even more difficult for the nation’s politicians to work on an agreement that might make the most of all this free energy. Continue reading

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Changes to Australia’s Law planned, to further uranium mining

sends a further public message about the likelihood of uranium mining being an increasing part of the mining landscape in Australia.

Changes to Commonwealth environmental approvals for uranium mining Australia, Lexology -July 6 2010 In brief:

  • The Federal Government released its response to Deloitte’s 2008 Review of Regulatory Efficiency in Uranium Mining in May 2010.
  • The response indicates there may be major changes to the environmental regulation of uranium mining in Australia. These may facilitate the approvals process for uranium mining. Continue reading

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India’s nuclear plans just a “plum market” for USA nuclear companies

In the event of a tragedy, tax payers will have to cough up the compensation while foreign companies will go scot free,” ….. foreign nuclear companies have seen their market dry up in the US, UK and France because no new plants have been set up there in 20-30 years, and therefore, India was a plum market. And it is with an eye on securing these companies’ interests that the US and other developed nations are insisting that India pass the Nuclear Civil Liability Bill.

Public hearing nukes civil liability bill. Indian Express, 07 Jul 2010, HYDERABAD: Speakers at a public consultation on the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill 2010 held here today pilloried the Union government for learning nothing from the Bhopal gas tragedy. They described as a sellout the Bill’s provision to impose a ceiling on the compensation payable by foreign nuclear suppliers in the eventuality of a nuclear accident. Continue reading

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