Antinuclear

Wrap up of the week’s news – February 1

Australia: The Australian media excelled itself in its distortion of news on Aboriginal protest in Canberra.  There may be an investigation into the violence there – violence  not from the Aborigines, but from the police.   Focus on this incident obscured  a deeper problem – the draft Constitutional changes which include entrenching the discrimination  and land-grabbing that goes on in the interests of the uranium/nuclear  industry. The Commission’s full report is available at: http://www.brc.gov

Anxious talks between BHP Billiton and South Australian government, as  BHP wavers about the future of the new big Olympic Dam uranium mine, in view of the nuclear industries global stagnation.

Australia’s richest person (en route to becoming the world’s richest woman) Gina Rinehart starts a new uranium mining company. Western Australian Labor, under a new leader, weakens its anti uranium policy.

700 prominent Australians call for ban on nuclear weapons, under the auspices of ICAN.  Only a very few  of these dignitaries want   Australia to keep on selling the fuel for nuclear weapons – uranium.

A quiet push to have Australian ports deepened, in preparation for USA nuclear submarines.  And another quiet push to have Australia buy its own nuclear submarines from USA.  And an even quieter meeting between Russia’s Foreign Minister and Australian officials on nuclear technology vo-operation between Australia and Russia.

February 1, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews