The week that has been, in nuclear and climate news
It’s getting harder, and more ridiculous, to separate nuclear issues from fossil fuel issues. Nuclear and coal power are really intertwined, indeed depending on each other, and both contributing to global warming.
And now there’s the global oil corruption scandal, which really can’t be ignored. Australia is right in the thick of it.
Australian and Marshall Islander nuclear test survivors demand a ban on nuclear weapons.
CLIMATE and ENERGY. Urgent need to shift to zero carbon power – as soon as 2018. Axe over controversial Shenhua coal mine in New England. Australia’s home solar battery company launches new product. Australia wasting over $2.5 million investigating ‘wind turbine syndrome‘. China’s State Grid Eyes Australia
POLITICS. We assume that Julie Bishop will oppose radioactive trash import, as she fears nuclear terrorism
It’s wrong to sell Australian uranium to critically unsafe Ukraine. The country that fuelled Fukushima to sell uranium to the country that gave us Chernobyl
SOUTH AUSTRALIA changes to Aboriginal Heritage Act – a precursor to nuclear waste dumping?
Desert Liberation Front (anti uranium) to rally outside Olympic Dam
Nuclear waste dump plan
- See this short video, from Today Tonight Adelaide, explaining the South Australian nuclear waste dump proposal.
- Scarce determined to recommend nuclear waste import and dump for South Australia. Kevin Scarce buys expert pro nuclear opinions from Switzerland and Belgium.
- South Australia’s elitist Nuclear Fuel Chain Royal Commission ignores any arguments that are not pro nuclear.
- Sisters of St Joseph oppose nuclear waste import, defend sacred lands of Aboriginal people.
- Who will benefit from nuclear waste import scheme – international nuclear companies!
WESTERN AUSTRALIA Faults exposed with Mulga Rock uranium mining proposal
QUEENSLAND Federal solar funding switch to hurt state
AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY funding battery storage in homes.
VICTORIA. At last Victoria might now get going, farming solar energy.
NEW SOUTH WALES. Origin energy buys power from Moree solar farm.
We assume that Julie Bishop will oppose radioactive trash import, as she fears nuclear terrorism
Nuclear terrorist threats ‘terrifying’, Yahoo News 7 AAP on April 2, 2016 There are “terrifying possibilities” that terrorists could get access to nuclear material to make dirty bombs, Foreign Minister Julie Bishop warns.
Speaking on the sidelines of a global nuclear summit in Washington on Saturday, Ms Bishop said Australia was committed to the global effort to secure nuclear material amid fears of the potential for a nuclear terrorist attack.
The summit is dealing with hypotheticals of what could occur and how to prevent it.
“There is a high level of concern that nuclear material could fall into the hands of terrorists or terrorist groups or that they would get sufficient material to make what is called a dirty bomb,” Ms Bishop told reporters……https://au.news.yahoo.com/a/31238577/nuclear-terrorist-threats-terrifying/
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