Nuclear dump now South Australia 2018 election issue

Nuclear fuel cycle: Opposition says Jay Weatherill’s dream of SA nuclear dump ‘is now dead’, ABC News, 11 Nov 16 By Leah MacLennan Opposition Leader Steven Marshall has announced he will not support the building of a high-level nuclear waste facility in South Australia, saying there is too much at risk…….

“We supported the royal commission and we have worked, I think diligently and enthusiastically over the past two years looking at this project,” Mr Marshall said.

“Jay Weatherill’s dream of turning South Australia into a nuclear waste dump is now dead.”That death knell was sounded on Sunday when the citizens’ jury handed their final report to the Premier.”

Mr Marshall has just returned from a trip to Finland, where he toured a nuclear waste facility there.

But he said the Finland process started in 1978, and was still not complete.

“Nothing that I saw while I was in Helsinki waylaid my concerns regarding the future financial viability of this project,” Mr Marshall said.

“What we know from the investigation here in South Australia was taxpayers were going to have to foot a bill of maybe $600–800 million before a decision on this project was ever even made.”

Nuclear dump now 2018 election issue: Opposition

Mr Marshall said he would take an anti-nuclear stance to the next election. “Quite frankly, I’m very pleased with this decision by the Premier. I think this will now become the defining issue of the 2018 state election,” he said.

“Jay Weatherill wants South Australia to become a nuclear waste dump. Now I have much greater ambition for our state.”…….

Greens push for ditching of nuclear dump

But the Premier said he would continue public consultation.

“There are many tens of thousands of South Australians who have decided to reach out to us and express their views and of course we still have very considerable material first to be considered and discussed,” he said.

“The Labor Party has not yet determined its position. The Government has not yet determined its position in relation to this matter.”

State Greens leader Mark Parnell said the Premier must now ditch the dump.

He said the proposition of a nuclear dump was destined to fail…….“Yes the Premier might want to wait till a few of those other processes are finished, but the result is not going to change.”

Environmentalists and traditional owners have also handed over a combined 35,000 signatures to the Premier, calling him to end any plans for the dump.http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-11-11/opposition-says-it-will-vote-against-sa-nuclear-waste-dump/8016818

November 12, 2016 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | politics, South Australia

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