Health organisations urge Australian government to withdraw Nuclear Waste Bill
Leading health organisations including MAPW and the Public Health Association have signed a statement calling for a comprehensive inquiry into the production of radioisotopes (including non-nuclear-reactor sources) and the disposal of nuclear medicine, before any action is taken to advance any national radioactive waste dump.
The Medical Association for Prevention of War (Australia) has called on the government to withdraw the National Radioactive Waste Management Bill . If passed the legislation would see Muckaty, 120km north of Tennant Creek, as the only site initially assessed for a radioactive waste dump. Continue reading
Darwin protest rally against nuclear waste dump
Traditional owners, environmentalists and trade unionists called on federal politicians to block a bill before the Senate, which would allow a waste dump to be built at Muckaty Station, about 100 kilometres north of Tennant Creek
Nuclear waste dump opponents rally, ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), By Jano Gibson, 11 May 11 , A Northern Territory Labor Minister has called on his federal colleagues to abandon plans to set up a nuclear waste storage facility in the Northern Territory. Continue reading
Full nuclear meltdown at Fukushima, TEPCO admits
It’s Official: Fukushima Hit With Full-Blown Nuclear Meltdown Gizmodo Australia, By Sam Biddle on May 13, 2011 The flow of bad news (and radiation) out of Fukushima’s reactors has diminished to a trickle over the past several weeks, as rescue work has proceeded. Not today. TEPCO’s admitted for the first time that Fukushima experienced a full meltdown. Continue reading
No medical need for nuclear industry, nuke waste dump, in Australia
“The government has continually misled the public by stating that a nuclear industry is necessary to provide treatment to people with cancer”…..alternatives such as cyclotrons were not nuclear-based….”But for some reason the government has a nuclear agenda.”
No need for nuclear medicine: doctor, Sydney Morning Herald, Larine Statham, May 12, 2011, The federal government has misled the public about Australia’s need for nuclear medicine, a Northern Territory emergency physician says. Continue reading
Navajo take uranium fight to United Nations
The groups contend the mines, first permitted by NRC in 1999, could contaminate drinking water for 15,000 Navajo residents in and around the two communities, which lie just outside the Navajo Nation. In 2005, the Navajo’s tribal government passed a law prohibiting uranium mining within its borders……The United Nations also recognizes clean water as a human right
Navajo Group to Take Uranium Mine Challenge to Human Rights Commission, NYTimes.com, By APRIL REESE May 12, 2011 In a last attempt to deep-six a controversial project to mine uranium near two Navajo communities in northwestern New Mexico, a Navajo environmental group is taking its fight to the global stage. Continue reading
Australia’s “Murdochracy” and the grab of Aboriginal land
The Murdoch press has been the most lurid and vociferous in promoting the “intervention”, which a United Nations special rapporteur has condemned for its racial discrimination….There is an old-fashioned colonial grab of mineral-rich land in the Northern Territory
How the Murdoch press keeps Australia’s dirty secret , New Statesman, John Pilger 12 May 2011 News Corp papers across the world propagate the myth that prejudice has no effect on the lives of modern-day Aboriginal people n his native land, Australia, Murdoch controls 70 per cent of the capital city press. Continue reading
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