Antinuclear

Property Council of South Australia’s Nathan Paine,Theo Maras, Chris Burns push for importing nuclear waste

Christina Macpherson, 15 June 13, In 1980, Senator Jean Melzer warned about Australia becoming “the quarry and waste dump of the world”  . The  Australian Labor Party soon got rid of her.  In 2007 Kevin Rudd came into power as Labor appeared to be opposing a nuclear waste dumping industry in Australia.

You might think that this nuclear waste importing idea has gone away. But it never did. And Australia has a global agreement  that could swing it into action faster than you can swing a cat  – the  International Framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation(IFNEC)

You might think that this noxious idea is not getting any support from the Australian public.

If so – you thought wrong.

In South Australia, the Property Council of SA, and several businessmen with more dollars in their eyes, than brains in their heads, are now pushing that same old nuclear barrow.

Here’s how they were reported in Adelaide Now today:   “Some also call for the development of a domestic nuclear power sector that Property Council of SA executive director Nathan Paine predicts could turn us into the “Dubai of Asia”….

He said: “You’d almost be able to give every South Australian … when they turn 18, a cheque for $50,000 and a house.”……

, Mr Burns said SA should develop a nuclear sector. He said: “What we’ve got unique resources for in this state are for nuclear energy. We have the resources in the ground; we should be digging it up and processing it. Never sell it, only lease it and bring it back here to bury it. I think that’s the industry for the state.”

SA has 40 per cent of the world’s known uranium reserves. Mr Maras said if the government championed a nuclear industry, business would soon come on board…..

They even want South Australia’s “mums and dads” to invest in developing  such ideas in the  We’re for Jobs in SA campaign

June 15, 2013 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, South Australia