Antinuclear

Federal Industry Minister Ian MacFarlane admits the disastrous mess of efforts to impose nuclear waste dump on Muckaty

Failed Muckaty nuclear dump process ‘a disaster’, Federal Industry Minister Ian MacFarlane says, ABC News,  August 14, 2014, “……..Ian MacFarlane added that if there were no takers for a dump in the NT by September he would “throw open it to all Australia”. Mr MacFarlane has been in the Territory to speak with Aboriginal land councils about proposals to nominate a new site after the Federal Government withdrew its nomination of Muckaty Station north of Tennant Creek as the site for Australia’s first nuclear waste dump in June.

Mr MacFarlane said a dump would be a lucrative opportunity but would only consider nominations that were uncontested…….

Dave Sweeney of the Australian Conservation Foundation said the process should lure people to consider the dump out of financial circumstance.

“We should have a process that’s based on evidence, not enthusiasm. We should have a process that isn’t a race to the bottom of which community desperate and seeking some revenue puts their hand up first,” Mr Sweeney said. https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/24715167/failed-muckaty-nuclear-dump-process-a-disaster-federal-industry-minister-ian-macfarlane-says/

August 16, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News