FlindersRanges Council delays nuclear waste dump ballot
Kimba council set a date while Hawker faces further delays, Transcontinental Amy Green 23 Aug19,
Following a week of meetings and debates surrounding the National Radioactive Waste Management Facility, both the Kimba and Flinders Ranges council have reached separate decisions moving forward.
The Kimba community will have its say on the proposal through a long-awaited ballot, which has been delayed for more than 12-months by litigation from native title holders.
While the decision to move forward with the ballot has been appealed by native title holders, District Council of Kimba Mayor Dean Johnson said their was no legal impediment to the ballot proceeding.
“Council’s position has always been to facilitate the ballot on behalf of the Minister for Resources and Northern Australia so our community could have its voice heard, and we reaffirmed that position at our ordinary meeting last week,” he explained.
“We were advised … that the Minister no longer requests that the Kimba and Hawker ballots to be run concurrently, so Council has commenced planning with a view to ballot papers being posted out on 3 October.”…….
Two independent reports have already been commissioned by the federal government, both the Cadence Economic Report and Professor Peta Ashworth’s University of Queensland Socio-Economic Study.
The Flinders Ranges Council is seeking government funding to commission further research.
Mr Slattery said the subsequent report will not be used as a decision making tool for the council…….
It is unclear if running the ballots non-concurrently will have any impact on the decision of where to place the national facility. https://www.transcontinental.com.au/story/6345929/waste-dump-ballot-to-run-non-concurrently-for-hawker-and-kimba/?fbclid=IwAR0o4bAGp7-RiD24rEhX5voZeaEx6QzfPwEHJ2iON20rOc0z5uSaeIVYumA
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