Northern Territory Government and protestors united against Federal nuke waste dump Bill
the Bill showed no respect for NT legislation designed to ban nuclear waste dumps in the Territory…..”The Muckaty site didn’t even make the short-list when environmental and scientific criteria were used to inform a preliminary site assessment study in the 1990s, now they want to build a dump there.”
Protesters ramp up campaign against nuke dump | News | NT News | Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia, 24 Feb 2011, TERRITORY anti-nuclear waste dump protesters have started a small but concerted campaign against new legislation expected to be presented to the Federal Senate next week.The House of Representatives passed the Bill on Tuesday with Muckaty Station about 120km north of Tennant Creek the site most likely to be used for the dump. Continue reading
Australian Country Liberal MP shows integrity on nuclear waste issue
Ms Griggs has come out against the dump.
Griggs defiant on N-waste NT News | Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia . 24 Feb 2011, TERRITORIANS are probably evenly divided about the Federal Government’s decision to build a nuclear waste dump near Tennant Creek.Some argue that Australia has an obligation to store its nuclear waste properly and the NT Outback is as good a place as any…….
But on one issue there is more agreement – that Canberra should not have the right to impose the dump on Territorians. Continue reading
Martin Ferguson’s cynical National Radioactive Waste Management Bill
The law overrides state, territory and local government laws and allows Resource Minister Martin Ferguson to disregard key environmental and Indigenous safeguards….“Any attempt to apply this law will be actively resisted. The Muckaty dump plan is a bad deal but it is not a done deal.”
Radioactive waste law ‘cynical and irresponsible’, by Dave Sweeney 24 Feb 2011, Legislation designed to smooth the way for the construction of a national radioactive dump on contested Indigenous land at Muckaty, north of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory, is improper, irresponsible and a broken promise, the Australian Conservation Foundation said today. Continue reading
Stacked pro nuclear panel, stacked audience, in Adelaide?
both the panel and the audience seemed to be composed entirely of nuclear energy supporters. Renewable energy was dismissed as irrelevant, there was virtually no mention of nuclear accidents, and Brook patronisingly dismissed community concerns about the location of nuclear plants as “juvenile”.
Greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change, CPA – The Guardian, Peter Mac, 23 February 2011 ” ……. In a recent TV panel discussion (ABC 24, 19-02-2011), Adelaide University Professor Barry Brook argued strongly for Australia to develop a nuclear power industry based around fast nuclear reactors. Continue reading
Wikileaks reveal nuclear dealings in Libya
For the moment, the Tajoura reactor remains in the part of the country still controlled by forces loyal to Qaddafi, who has vowed to “fight to the last drop of blood” to remain in power. Its current status is unknown.
Nuclear Madness in Tripoli. The New York Review of Books, Jeremy Bernstein, 24 Feb 2011, If any further proof is needed of Libyan strongman Muammar Qaddafi’s mental instability it is provided by WikiLeaks dispatches from US diplomats in Tripoli in November and December of 2009. At issue was some nearly loose nuclear material, a Russian plane, and a lone security guard—a footnote in the WikiLeaks scandal that many may have missed…….. Continue reading
Greenhouse gas emissions and extreme weather events – Australia take note
The Canadian/Oxford research is highly politically significant, because it will help to strip away the “stonewall”, do-nothing tactics that various governments have used to excuse themselves from dealing seriously with climate change. The studies will have particular relevance in Australia, where extreme weather events are all too evident, and where token gestures by government are the order of the day as far as climate change is concerned.
Greenhouse gas emissions linked to climate change, CPA – The Guardian, Peter Mac, 23 February 2011In Australia the public’s attention has been firmly fixed on the havoc wrought by floods in the eastern states, cyclones in Queensland and the Northern Territory, and bushfires in Western Australia. However, extreme weather events are also occurring in many nations overseas. Continue reading
Financial agencies warn of nuclear power’s “economic meltdown”
New nuclear reactors are an economic meltdown waiting to happen and sadly President Obama has put the American taxpayer on the hook for the financial fall out
Obama, the Oracle of Omaha & Nuclear Power | Greenpeace USA, 24 Feb 2011,“……….the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has already cautioned against making these guarantees for new nuclear plants stating that: Continue reading
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