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Wake up Australia – to the machinations of the Thorium Nuclear Lobby!

AUSTRALIA – Wake up!!

Completely under the radar, unknown to mainstream media, nuclear lobby machinations are going on, especially in Victoria and South Australia.

On March 15th, South Australians will elect a Liberal government, and that will hasten the lobby’s plans for a nuclear power ‘hub’ in that state. Long promoted by Prof Barry Brook, Alexander Downer Prof Stefan Simons (BHP funded)  and others, the nuclear push gets an extra kick from  drive to get nuclear submarines. At present Australia’s Defence Minister is in Scotland, researching construction of nuclear submarines.

This will involve South Australia becoming part of USA’s nuclear war machine (i.e. yet another Australian target). It will be pitched to us as both necessary for Australia’s defence, and necessary to replace jobs lost when Holden shut down. And, if they can pull this off – it will be the prelude to South Australia hosting the full nuclear cycle, and importing foreign radioactive wastes.

Now to Victoria.  Under the guise of coal seam gas search Ignite Energy Resources’s very media-shy executive director, Dr John White is closely involved in nuclear lobbying.

The Nuclear Activities (Prohibitions) Act 1983, effectively prohibits the exploration and mining of thorium and uranium in Victoria.   Sandi Keane of Independent Australia has revealed the interest being taken by the thorium nuclear lobby, and the Victorian government  in leases where thorium exists, and in the potential for using it to power nuclear  reactors.

Not to be forgotten – the Northern Territory, where traditional Aboriginal landowners continue to fight the draconian  National Radioactive Waste Management Act (NRWMA)

March 14, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews