Antinuclear

Don’t turn back to dirty nuclear waste industry: South Australia leads the nation in Renewable Energy,

Dennis Matthews, 14 Feb 15  BHP Billiton’s mine at Roxby Downs is the biggest energy user in SA. It’s also the biggest polluter and greenhouse gas emitter. The amount of radioactive waste at Roxby is enormous and it has just received, without any public consultation, government approval to increase the height of its radioactive tailings dam to 40m.

This electricity and water guzzling operation would be the main beneficiary of a nuclear power station, thus locking SA to even greater water and energy consumption and into a downward spiral of ever-increasing pollution.

SA leads the nation in the use of renewable energy, now the Premier wants to turn the clock back to the bad old days of Maralinga, Rum Jungle and Radium Hill. It’s an ill weather that will do no one good.

February 14, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News