Muckaty’s Milwayi Traditional Owners speak out against claims for Nuclear Waste Dump
National Land Council excluding true Muckaty Owners who oppose the nuclear waste dump.30/3/2010, Yesterday the Northern Land Council (NLC) supported a large group of Muckaty Traditional Owners to visit the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor in Sydney and present at today’s Senate Inquiry in Canberra. Muckaty Traditional Owner Pamela Brown, from the Milwayi group, issued the following statement in response :
If the NLC and Amy Lauder are in Canberra, I want them to tell the government people where they really stand and tell them the whole truth, that Muckaty doesn’t belong to them. Continue reading
Nuclear waste dump a danger and’ negligible’ benefit to Northern Territory
NT not able to cope with nuke accident, says Government, Northern Territory News BEN LANGFORD March 29th, 2010 MOST Territory hospitals and the Port of Darwin are not equipped to deal with a radioactive waste incident or interest from “sophisticated criminal groups”, the NT Government has said.
The Government has told a Senate inquiry into new laws for a nuclear waste dump there would be “negligible economic benefit from the facility” for the NT. Continue reading
Aboriginal opposition to National Land Council’s Nuclear Waste Dump Agreement
“You and your organisation should be embarrassed hiding behind legislation that suspends the Aboriginal Land Rights Act (1976).”
N-dump anger The Guardian , 24 March 2010. Darren Coyne, Opposition is mounting against a proposal to site a national radioactive dump at Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory despite the Northern Land Council (NLC) insisting it has the support of traditional owners. Meetings, protests and angry statements have been the fall-out since a recent announcement by Federal Resources Minister Martin Ferguson………… Continue reading
Gambling Central Australia’s future, with nuclear wastes
A major omission in Dr Switkowski’s comments concerns what effects over thousands of years that leaking and leeching radioactive waste might have upon Australia’s precious subterranean aquifers. For a nation as reliant as we are on underground water, that represents a massive gamble to say the very least.
NUCLEAR UNDER TONES?, Larry Buttrose, 15 March, 2010, “…Dr Switkowski continues: “Eventually spent fuel is transported to a national repository, a well-engineered deep hole in the ground, probably in central Australia.” Continue reading
Muckaty nuke waste site – earthquake risk, missing documents
one key document, an anthropological report, is missing.
Earthquake fears over nuclear dump site, ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), By Jane Bardon and Emma Masters, Mar 12, 2010 Reports into the suitability of the site chosen by the Federal Government for a nuclear waste dump say more scientific investigation is needed into the threat of earthquakes around the Tennant Creek region. Continue reading
Radioactive waste dumped in Kakadu National Park
Toxic waste dump in Kakadu, Northern Territory News , NIGEL ADLAM, March 13th, 2010
THE equivalent of six Olympic-size swimming pools of radioactive soil and mining equipment has been buried in Kakadu National Park.Parks Australia said it was not nuclear waste and the level of radioactivity was low.
The soil and equipment had been stored in shipping containers.
It has now been put in containers with a structural life of 1000 years and buried four metres down.
Planned NT nuclear waste dump will not be just for ‘medical’ waste
What will be stored at Muckaty? – ABC Darwin – Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 10 March, 2010 By Liz Trevaskis We’ve heard that medical waste will be stored at an Australian radioactive waste dump, either at Muckaty station or wherever else a site is chosen. But spent nuclear fuel rods, which are of a higher level of radioactivity, will also be stored in any waste dump that’s established.
Govt will give aborigines housing, education – in exchange for hosting radioactive waste!
Aborigines being exploited over nuclear waste dump, says Scott Ludlam, Herald Sun By Larine Statham From: AAP, March 04, ABORIGINES should not be forced to trade their country for housing and education, Greens Senator Scott Ludlam says.
Northern Territory govt against Martion Ferguson’s nuclear waste dump
“There was extensive research done between 1992 and 2004 to identify any number of sites around Australia, none of which were in the Northern Territory.”
Traditional owners ‘united’ behind nuclear dump, By Alison Middleton ABC News Mar 3, “… Continue reading
Rudd Govt can over-ride Northern Territory
it is too useful to the commonwealth as a zone for decision-making.
Dreams of statehood are buried in a sparsely populated area * NORTHERN TERRITORY: Nicolas Rothwell, The Australian, February 27, 2010 THIS week’s announcement by federal Resources and Energy Minister Martin Ferguson that the commonwealth’s preferred site for a national radioactive waste depository is Muckaty station in the heart of the central desert foregrounds a bitter truth about Northern Territory politics. Continue reading
Aborigines will eventually have to bear the cost of maintaining nuclear waste dump?
Group of 40 okays NT nuclear dump NT News NIGEL ADLAM February 27th, 2010
“…The deal between Canberra and the NLC has a curious footnote _ the dump site must be handed back to traditional owners after 300 years…”
Ferguson putting it over us on Muckaty nuclear waste dump
a small group of traditional owners were paid $200,000 to volunteer their land, but that the government had refused to make the agreement public
Nuclear waste dump should be ‘scrapped’
BigPond News February 23, 2010
Mr Sweeney ….. argued the government was still forcing a nuclear waste dump on a community that doesn’t want it. He says about 60 traditional owners have signed a petition opposing the development of the dump at Muckaty, some of whom Mr Ferguson claims volunteered the land. Continue reading
Funds to aboriginal outstation linked to uranium mining
MLA links outstation funds to uranium mine By Kirsty Nancarrow, ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)Feb 18, 2010
The Northern Territory Government could be investing in a new Central Australian outstation as part of a push to develop a uranium mine, a politician has claimed. Continue reading
Labor MP to fight against NT nuclear waste dump
Hale to fight own party against nuclear dump ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) By Louisa Rebgetz 20 Feb 2010
As speculation mounts that a nuclear waste dump will be located in the Northern Territory, MP Damian Hale says he will “fight tooth and nail” to prevent it happening. Continue reading
Muckaty Station likely to be the chosen nuclear waste dump site
NT property could be chosen as nuclear waste dump site ABC Rural News , 19/02/2010 The Australian Conservation Foundation believes a station in the Northern Territory could be the location of Australia’s first nuclear waste dump.The Northern Land Council is handling negotiations with the Commonwealth on behalf of the traditional owners that own Muckaty Station, 120 kilometres north of Tennant Creek. Continue reading
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