About Australia’s water, and about those naughty radioactive fish

Australia is a water scarce continent. Nowdays the technocrats are bleating about how we need Desalination Plants.

But let’s get it straight about who really needs desalination plants. Why it’s that rapacious old multinational corporation, BHP Billiton. BHP B has open slather, at no cost whatever, to its daily guzzle of 35 million litres, and BHPB plans to extract an additional 120 million litres of publicly-owned artesian water per day, every day, for the next 70 years.

Then the desal plant in South Australia. (Never mind that this will mean extinction for the unique and beautiful giant cuttlefish. Just another victim to corporate profit.)

Now to those naughty radioactive fish, with Cesium that lasts for 30 years. Well, 1. they don’t stay in one place – they swim elsewhere.

And 2. they get eaten by bigger fish, and so on, in each case concentrating radioactivity further, as predators take the radioactivity up the food chain. -it’s very concentrated by the time it gets to top predators. And shock horror – who are these top predators. Why – it’s US! – Christina Macpherson