Antinuclear

Wrap up of the week’s Australian nuclear news

Renewables.  I know that they are not strictly a nuclear topic – but what can I do?  There’s just a whole lot more happening there, than in the tired out nuclear stillbirth.  In Queensland. Scouller Energy, is pressing ahead with a plan to build a10-megawatt solar plant near Normanton – even as the Queensland government withdraws support for solar . In Western Australia,  Horizon Power comes up with a solar feed-in tariff that will reward remote communities according to the costs saved in transmission of electricity over distance. Energy efficiency gets a boost with Sydney‘s plan for cogeneration and on-site production of electricity

Future Fund. New Chairman  David Gonski confronted with the facts on its investment in nuclear weapons, while Australia proclaims its nuclear non proliferation stand. Rising public condemnation of this hypocrisy.

Court case. Uncle Kevin Buzzacott’s legal action against the planned new huge Olympic Dam uranium mine. The judge is considering the mass of doumentary evidence, and has deferred his judgment.  I is not all going BPH Billiton’s way. Among other considerations, there was much debate about BHP’s  planned use of water resources.

Climate change.  While new scientific evidence confirms human caused climate change, Australia’s monopoly media  is shown to have given an inordinate amount of coverage to the climate denialist point of view, – in a forensic study by Wendy Bacon, of 6 months of news coverage of the Gillard government’s carbon tax plan.

April 11, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews