Kimba community’s $20 Million dollars can only be accessed ONCE THE NUCLEAR DUMP IS UP AND RUNNING!
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Kazzi Jai Fight To Stop Nuclear Waste In The Flinders Ranges, 27 Apr 20, The “Advance Money” suggested b
 y the Kimba Council to come out of the $20 Million dollars can only be accessed ONCE THE DUMP IS UP AND RUNNING!The $20 Million Dollars – is part of the $31 Million Dollars – which is a ONCE OFF PAYMENT for a nuclear dump which will be operational and accepting nuclear waste for 100 years, then closed and monitored for a further 200 years until radioactive levels of the permanently disposed above ground Low Level Nuclear waste decrease to normal background levels. What happens to the  above ground dry storage “temporary” Intermediate Level Nuclear Waste is anyone’s guess – most likely will become STRANDED OR ZOMBIE WASTE – which remains dangerous for 1000’s of years!
What is the other $11 Million dollars of the $31 Million used for? $8 million is made available ONLY FOR FOUR YEARS for community skills and development during the licensing and construction period of the dump. The up to $3 Million is available ONLY FOR THREE YEARS and is to “strengthen Indigenous skills training and cultural heritage protection in the community”. The Community Benefits Program Money otherwise known as Bribe money, is only spent on things which are visible – usually up to $100,000 dollars for each item max. suggested. The community are “owed” up to $2 million dollars for staying in “the program” for the last year, and it is managed through AusIndustry. There is no way it is spent on destitute people….. Because Minister Canavan left in such a hurry and only “announced” the site – it is still in limbo. If he had declared the site as per the CURRENT ACT…then there are still grounds to appeal. HOWEVER the NEW MINISTER Keith Pitt wants to amend the Act so that the Napandee site IS WRITTEN INTO THE LEGISLATION – which means there is NO APPEAL PROCESS apart from arguing about it through Constitutional Law – which is a totally different ball game!
That is my understanding. https://www.facebook.com/groups/941313402573199/ |
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A $20 MILLION fund to compensate the Kimba community for hosting a contentious radioactive waste dump should be indexed because the COVID-19 pandemic is likely to further delay the project, the local council says.
Opposition against the project continues to surface with a parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights finding there was a significant risk that indigenous peoples were not adequately consulted, and their right to culture and self-determination was not fully protected.
Laws are before the Federal Parliament to formalise the decision to make Napandee, on the Eyre Peninsula, the site for a repository and give it $20 million to support the long-term viability of the town.
But leaders of the Kimba Council say it has already spent five years involved in the site selection process.
The council has already planned to use the fund for a $1 million expansion of Kimba’s health centre and agricultural research and development.
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