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Choice of nuclear dump site – “appalling” disrespect to Aboriginal culture

It’s a desecration”: Traditional owner slams SA nuclear dump plan, InDaily,Bension Siebert, 29 Apr 16  @Bension1

Adnyamathanha traditional owner Regina McKenzie told InDaily Barndioota Station, near Wilpena Pound, was home to spiritually and architecturally significant sacred burial sites and story lines.

McKenzie, also a lease holder living next to the station, said placing a nuclear waste dump on the site would amount to a “desecration”.

She said the plan showed “appalling” disrespect to Aboriginal culture and the Government “should be ashamed”. It’s a desecration; it’s a desecration of our belief system,” she said. She said the Adnyamathanha people wanted to preserve the story lines within the land “not only for our children but for non-Aboriginal people to come in and learn about our culture”.

“Imagine if somebody approached the Vatican and told them they wanted to put a nuclear dump [there]?”…….

Conservation Council SA Chief Executive Craig Wilkins said a nuclear waste dump on the site would damage South Australia’s tourism brand.

He said it “puts at risk the image of one of the state’s tourism icons: the Flinders Ranges” and was not “an economic or employment solution for SA” because it would create “a maximum of just six ongoing jobs”. “Nuclear waste has an enormous power to divide and fracture communities.”http://indaily.com.au/business/2016/04/29/traditional-owner-slams-sa-nuclear-dump-plan/

May 2, 2016 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | General News