Antinuclear

Fossil fuel and nuclear industries rev up their influence in Australia

It’s been a bit of a Yey ! Boo! week for Australia’s polluting industries.

Yey! – They’ve had a big political win in Victoria, where Ted Baillieu’s Liberal government has sided with the fossil fuel front groups the Waubra Foundation and the Landscape Guardians    (see http://www.independentaustralia.net/2011/environment/the-ugly-landscape-of-the-guardians/)   Their aim is to destroy Australia’s wind industry.

Boo! – They’ve had a political setback in Western Australia, where both Liberal government and Labor opposition reject Rio Tinto’s call for nuclear power.

South Australia is the nuclear lobby’s safest propaganda State.  This is the State that hosts  Professor Barry Brook , and Professor Pam Sykes at Flinders University.  Brook manages to be a top promoter of the nuclear industry, while being Director of Climate Science at Adelaide University. Sykes manages to promote low level radiation as OK, even healthy, while being funded from money originally intended to help the USA victims of low level radiation from atomic bomb tests.

Now South Australia is getting a new university project. It’s to study the full life-cycle costs of nuclear power compared to other energy sources.  The Adelaide campus chief for University College London, David Travers, assures us that the research will be impartial.

Trouble is, BHP Billiton gave University College London the money to set up this research project. It will be done under the auspices of  the International Atomic Energy Association.  Do you smell a rat?  I do. – Christina Macpherson

August 30, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews