to March 1st – nuclear news Australia
Like most people, I have not been able to keep up with the pandemic news. Figures on the incidence of Covid-19, and on deaths, seem to fluctuate. Amidst the uncertainties about types of vaccines, new virus strains, and the anti-vaxxer movement, still there is an atmosphere of optimism. Vaccine acceptance is rising in many countries, and health workers and many volunteers are putting in the efforts to administer vaccines , and care for those who are ill.
David Attenborough warns the U.N. Security Council – the world risks ‘collapse of everything’ without strong climate action.
A bit of good news – Pollution in the Mississippi River Has Plummeted Since The 1980s
AUSTRALIA.
Australian scientists warn urgent action needed to save 19 ‘collapsing’ ecosystems.
Australian federal and state governments keeping laws banning nuclear power, despite Murdoch pro nuclear propaganda. Kimba radioactive trash Bill stagnates in the Senate, as Right-wing media extols nuclear power. Legislation banning nuclear power in Australia should be retained. A new motley crew of Australian politicians form “Friends of Nuclear”
Australian government’s nuclear waste plans unacceptable – Dr Margaret Beavis. Australian government obsessed with preventing legal appeals against its nuclear waste dump plan.
National Farmers Federation want govt to support renewable energy (not coal or nuclear).
Murder, corruption, bombings – the company at centre of Australia’s submarine deal.
The remediation of Ranger uranium mine: will it really restore the environment?
INTERNATIONAL
The role of the Churches in promoting the U.N. Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty. Nuclear-weapons treaty the right way forward.
The media revels in rockets to Mars, ignores the horrible risk of plutonium pollution.
Why is the media fawning over nuclear businessman Bill Gates? Nuclear power-not clean, not renewable – Bill Gates is wrong.
Dr Helen Caldicott on Independent Australia tells The Truth About Nuclear Power.ant.
A new motley crew of Australian politicians form “Friends of Nuclear”
Reporter Rosie Lewis, writing in THE AUSTRALIAN (25/12/21) recorded, with that paper’s usual pro nuclear joy and delight, that 21 Australian politicians have signed up to this group. They named only 9 of these MPs, a motley crew indeed, of minor party members, and 5 Labor Party ones.
It gets confusing, as Labor has a clear policy of prohibiting nuclear technology, ( excluding the Lucas Heights Opal reactor). But then, sabotage of Labor policies is not a new thing for Joel Fitzgibbon. He opposes Labor’s climate policy (which is strange, as nuclear’s big push is about purporting to combat climate change)
However, you can bet that the remaining 12 ‘nuclear friends’ would be Liberals and Nationals.
Meanwhile, the 9 mentioned have an odd assortment of views on energy – some support renewable energy, some oppose. There’s some scepticism on climate change, where you’d expect nuclear being touted as the solution. And Pauline Hanson is on record as opposing the nuclear lobby’s plan for a nuclear waste dump at Kimba, South Australia.
“Dr Gillespie and Senator Gallacher said their priority was on educating other MPs — particularly within Labor — about nuclear energy.” “We can introduce the best scientific minds into our parliamentary friendship group and bring them to Canberra.”
Of course, those “best scientific minds” will come from “Australia’s Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation and other government and industry bodies” which function primarily as nuclear promoters, anyway. I don’t think they’ll be inviting Dr Helen Caldicott, Dr Jim Green, or Dave Sweeney fron the Australian Conservation Foundation.
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