Antinuclear

The week that has been in Australia’s nuclear and climate news

Late news flashes:

• Submarine purchase from France in cahoots with nuclear lobby‘s plan for expansion of nuclear industry, to be announced on May 6 by the sham South Australia Nuclear Fuel Chain Royal Commission.
• The seller, France’s corporation Direction des Constructions et Armes Navales (DCNS) is notorious for corruption.

Most impressive news item of the week – Central bankers, financial facts, bringing an end to the nuclear power era?

NUCLEAR. A quiet week on the nuclear front turned busy, just at the end.  The Federal government suddenly announced the site chosen as a national radioactive dump, at Barndioota, South Australia,- a nice  little bonanza for property owner former SA Liberal Senator Grant Chapman.  Adnyamathanha Traditional Owners did not share his joy, and will fight nuclear waste dump plan.  Communities from the five other proposed radioactive waste sites are supporting the Flinders community campaign against the dump.

In the coming week, the South Australia Nuclear Fuel Chain Royal Commission will recommend making Australia the world’s nuclear waste dump. The whole Commission was a setup job from the beginning.  #NuclearCommissionSAust sets up a pro nuclear Committee for Adelaide overseas junket. South Australia’s pro nuclear tourists picked a bad day to visit Finland.

Meanwhile South Australia is in  a frenzy of delight that there will be a submarine business there, supplied by France at  $5 billion, (presumable good election value at $10 billion per each of the 5 marginal Liberal seats). Only it’s very costly, and they mightn’t be built in S.A. at all. But hey – the design is for nuclear submarines !- not fuelled by nuclear at this stage. Maybe later.

CLIMATE  Turnbull’s climate policy deceptions – cut climate funds, then announce new policies.  Urgent need to end $7.7 Billion Fossil Fuel Subsidies. Australia needs action, not just Turnbull’s words, to save the Great Barrier Reef.

RENEWABLE ENERGY.   Canberra at the forefront in the new renewable energy era.  First-ever council solar farm for Queensland – on the Sunshine Coast. Export industry potential for Victorian solar energy project, backed by Australian Renewable Energy Agency.

April 30, 2016 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews