Antinuclear

Queensland community meetings of indigenous and non indigenous people discuss nuclear dump plan

AUDIO: Community meetings are being held in response to proposals of a nuclear waste dump  http://www.nirs.org.au/NEWS/Community-meetings-are-being-held-in-response-to-proposals-of-a-nuclear-waste-dump on November 23, 2015 Cassandra Tim Journalist

Queensland – The first of four to six planned community meetings has been held in response to Oman Ama being named as one of six potential sites to become a nuclear waste dump.

The federal government is under fire from several camps about its plans to bury low levels of radioactive waste and to store higher level waste above ground in sheds in a number of proposed sites across the country.

The forum in Inglewood attracted up to 200 local residents, a lobby group consisting of several councils and alongside them was Co-Chair of the Australian Nuclear Free Alliance, Adam Sharah.
Mr Sharah says he welcomes the consultation process to engage the interests of local First Nations people and Land Councils.

He says local non-Indigenous residents used the event to voice their concern over the region potentially housing nuclear waste.
There are three nominated locations to be Australia’s first nuclear waste dump in South Australia and one each in New South Wales, the Northern Territory and Queensland.

November 25, 2015 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News