Despite Abbott, Liberal Coalition plans for nuclear power
“We believe people should be given facts, not hysteria”….So you’ll see
Australia under an Abbott government working with other countries as other countries develop their nuclear industries..”
Nuclear debate still open, Stock & Land, 14 July, 2010, “………… many in Australia’s uranium industry and the Coalition itself expect a debate about clean (?) energy supplies that will point towards developing a local nuclear capacity.
Opposition resources spokesman Ian Macfarlane has been open about the Coalition’s longer-term position. Continue reading
Anti-nuclear Aboriginal is Greens Senate candidate
He says he wants to represent Territorians in the fight against the proposed nuclear waste dump at Muckaty station and the federal intervention.
Greens choose entertainer as Senate candidate, ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), By Kirsty Nancarrow Jul 14, 2010 The Greens have chosen the award-winning Central Australian entertainer Warren H. Williams as its Northern Territory Senate candidate for the upcoming federal election. Continue reading
Anerican Indian tribes resist nuclear waste storage
Tribes: Nuclear waste can’t be stored at Hanford, Google hosted news, (AP) – 15 July 2010, RICHLAND, Wash. — Northwest American Indian tribes say highly radioactive waste cannot be permanently stored at the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site. Members of the Yakama, Nez Perce, Umatilla and Wanapum tribes on Wednesday addressed a commission appointed by President Barack Obama to examine U.S. disposal of radioactive waste. It was prompted by his decision not to proceed with the Yucca Mountain waste repository in Nevada…..
The Associated Press: Tribes: Nuclear waste can’t be stored at Hanford
USA-Australia Nuclear Co-operation Agreement
Does the Australian public know anything about this?
If not opposed by a joint resolution of disapproval or other legislation, then the agreement will be considered approved at the end of this time period.
U.S.-Australia Civilian Nuclear Cooperation: Issues for Congress, East Asia: , 14 July 2010, Mary Beth Nikitin, Bruce Vaughn Australia and the United States have cooperated in the peaceful use of nuclear energy since the mid-1950s. The framework for this cooperation is a civilian nuclear cooperation agreement as required by section 123 of the Atomic Energy Act. President Obama transmitted the proposed text of the latest renewal agreement to Congress on May 5, 2010, Continue reading
Australia’s uranium not looking like a good investment
Uranium Struggles FNArena News – July 13 2010 By Greg Peel “……..Given uranium being “out of favour” in Citi’s eyes, the broker last week downgraded its earnings forecasts for Australia’s two major pure-play uranium producers, Paladin Energy (PDN) and Energy Resources of Australia ((ERA)). Citi suggests the uranium market looks adequately supplied for now.
Paladin copped a 40% earnings forecast reduction in FY11-12 due to lower than expected spot prices and higher than expected costs, leading to a target price reduction from $5.40 to $4.40 (FNArena consensus $4.09). ERA’s cut is only 6-9% in FY11-12 given the offsetting drop in the Aussie dollar, but Citi’s target falls from $23.30 to $15.10 (consensus $16.92).
65 years ago – the start of the nuclear radiation cover-up
When reports of thousands in Hiroshima and Nagasaki afflicted with a strange and horrible new disease emerged, General Groves, at first, called it all a “hoax” and “propaganda” and speculated that the Japanese had different “blood.”
Secrecy, Cover-ups & Deadly Radiation: On the Birth of the Nuclear Age 65 Years Ago Greg MitchellJuly 14, 2010 While most people trace the dawn of the nuclear era to August 6, 1945, and the dropping of the atomic bomb over the center of Hiroshima, it really began three weeks earlier, in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico, with the top-secret Trinity test. Its sixty-fifth anniversary will be marked—or mourned, if you will—this Friday, July 16. . Continue reading
Northern Territory Intervention forcing Aboriginals off their homelands
The women also condemned the NT government’s Working Future policy. “This is about closing our homelands and our outstations,” the women’s statement said…..
the worst impact of the intervention was to economically force people away from their country
Alice Springs convergence calls for Macklin’s resignation Alternative Media Group 15 July 2010, East Coast mob, friends from the south, elders and youngsters from all around Australia met in Alice Springs for four days last week to discuss and plan a way forward from the problems caused by the federal Intervention in Northern Territory communities. Continue reading
Row over nuclear compensation intended for Australian veterans
Last night, the Ministry of Defence accepted that the payment made by the British Government could have been used to pay off Australian servicemen but argued that Australian ministers had used it to decontaminate test sites.
£20m ‘betrayal’ of UK’s nuclear bomb test veterans Veterans are betrayed by double standards, This Is Derbyshire, 14 July 2010, BRITISH ex-servicemen have reacted angrily to news that ministers paid out £20 million to Australia to settle compensation claims arising from UK nuclear bomb tests – while continuing to deny them payouts for illnesses they say were caused by the same blasts. Continue reading
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