Apart from Greens amendment Australia’s Nuclear Waste Bill is bad legislation
Nuclear waste dump plans pass Senate SBS World News, 13 March 2012 Legislation to establish Australia’s first national nuclear waste dump has passed the Senate, the ABC reports, paving the way for a dump at Muckaty Station in the Northern
Territory.
The Northern Territory government and various local clan groups are opposed to the plan to build a medium-level nuclear waste dump on the aboriginal land north of Tennant Creek….. Anti-nuclear activist Nat Wasley told the Green Left Weekly she welcomed Greens Senator Scott Ludlam’s amendment that international waste cannot be stored at the facility but said the rest of the legislation ‘Is neither new nor good.
It builds on the mistakes of the Howard era and lacks credibility and consent. There are still many hurdles for the government before a dump is up and running, and this proposal will be challenged every step of the way.’…
A dispute over who owns the land in question continues to complicate affairs – a Federal court case is yet to decide if the indigenous group who signed the deal to put Muckaty station in the running to hold the waste are the true owners.
Resources Minister Martin Ferguson’s reitereated the an earlier pledge not to proceeed until the court case is decided, Fairfax reported. ‘In relation to litigation in the Federal Court concerning the nominated land, the Government will not act on this site until this matter is resolved by the Court’, he said….. Muckaty is the only site nominated under the current proceedings.
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1633901/Nuclear-waste-dump-plans-pass-Senate
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