Australia’s ‘nuclear debate’ – it’s all over, red rover
Will they look voters in the face at the next election and say I want a nuclear power station in your electorate?”The recent terrible events in Japan and the ongoing emergency at the Fukushima nuclear power plant have shown very clearly the dangers of nuclear energy and why we should not go down this path in our country.”
Nuclear debate in Australia over: Bandt | Greens MPs, 26 March 11, Greens MP Adam Bandt has told the Parliament that the nuclear debate in Australia is now over.In a speech last night discussing the emergency at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, Mr Bandt said other MPs, who just three weeks ago were strongly advocating nuclear power, were now silent. Continue reading
Gladstone “ideal” for Australia’s first nuclear power plant
Chairman backs nuclear power |Gladstone Observer, 26 March 11, NUCLEAR power is a crucial ingredient in Australia’s energy future, says Everald Compton, chairman of the Australian Transport and Energy Corridor.“I am a total believer in the fact this country should have nuclear power,” he said yesterday.Speaking at the Region of Choice Summit in Gladstone, Mr Compton said Australia was well-positioned to establish nuclear power plants.
He said Gladstone could be an ideal region to act as pioneer, although he acknowledged it would take somebody “courageous” to campaign for the move towards nuclear……Chairman backs nuclear power | Gladstone News | Local News in Gladstone | Gladstone Observer
Ziggy’s nuclear plans for Tasmania now thwarted
It all seemed a long way from the heady days of December 2006, when former Telstra head, nuclear physicist and chairman of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, Ziggy Switkowski, produced a report for the Howard government on the prospects and opportunities for nuclear power in Australia.
He concluded 25 nuclear reactors could be built around Australia’s coast….One nuclear power plant was pencilled in for the Tamar River north of Launceston or on the nearby Bass Strait coast, near the undersea Basslink power-cable link to Victoria.
Nuclear not for Tassie The Mercury – The Voice of Tasmania, SUE NEALES March 26, 2011 “……..Prime Minister Julia Gillard ….has firmly told Resources Minister Martin Ferguson, a keen proponent of nuclear energy’s potential for Australia ……that there will be no renewed nuclear power debate any time soon. Continue reading
Fukushima shows success of nuclear – says Ziggy Spinowski
……That the plant remains largely intact is 
extraordinary….there is no report of a nuclear-related fatality nor any case of radiation sickness from exposure to elevated radioactivity……media coverage of this nuclear crisis has taught Australians more about the nuclear fuel cycle,…nuclear power remains the best and only option.
Japan crisis teaches much about value of nuclear Ziggy Switkowski Herald Sun * March 25, 2011 WHY build nuclear power stations in Japan? Because that’s where the people are – 126 million in a habitable area smaller than Victoria. Continue reading
Bleak prospects for Australia’s uranium industry
Ord Minnett senior resources analyst Peter Arden says the negative outlook for the uranium sector may be very prolonged. The disaster had fractured confidence in the resources sector as a whole and this damage would not be repaired quickly, Mr Arden said..Mr Gillham said the movement against developing nuclear power plants in Australia was likely to grow.
Uranium sector negativity likely prolonged, Sydney Morning Herald, Rebecca Le MayMarch 18, 2011 “…….Morningstar senior research analyst Mark Taylor said the near-term outlook for the uranium market was negative Continue reading
Australian government may delay its draconian Nuclear Waste Dump law
Please note – statement from Aboriginal traditional landowners can be read here – Document.pdf
It remains unclear whether or not the National Radioactive Waste Management laws will be introduced this week by Dave Sweeney, 24 March 11, some in Labor indicate that other pressing legislation coupled with increased community sensitivity to matters nuclear post Fukushima mean it is better to defer the legislation at this time, however all indications 
are that Minister Ferguson (at right) is keen to see it advanced.
Muckaty Traditional Owners Dianne Stokes and Mark Chungaloo have been in Canberra talking strongly against the dump –
Some other developments today have seen a growing number of voices join the chorus against the dump laws and plan. A group of leading medical organisations issued a call for Labor to defer the legislation pending further consultation and the federal court determination This call was echoed in a media statement by the leading aid and development organisation Oxfam
Fukushima nuclear plant a success, and Australia should take in nuclear wastes, says Miranda Devine
Australia’s nuclear lobby is in full marketing mode, as the Japanese nuclear crisis deepens, and the world rethinks nuclear power. Australia has a pack of nuclear spindoctors. Hard to name them all. But , (in my spin doctors picture below ) how could I have left out Miranda Devine – who is excelling them all in her nuclear marketing hype? – Christina Macpherson
Nuclear energy was set its toughest test on the northeast coast of Japan, and it passed….Australia, of all places, should be at the vanguard of atomic energy and research….Australia becoming the world’s primary nuclear storage facility, since we can cheaply and safely store nuclear waste
How nuclear passed its toughest test Miranda Devine The Daily Telegraph March 24, 2011 FUKUSHIMA is the world’s best advertisement for nuclear energy Continue reading
Antinuclear cry from the heart of Australia’s heartland
As for the business of the Australian Federal Government paying off an indigenous group to dump radioactive material on their land (Muckaty Station near Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory)…it’s such an appallingly low act…If nothing else, read your insurance policies. Do they specifically rule out claims against personal or property damage that is nuclear-accident related? Why?No insurance company or underwriters will touch it with a mile-long pole, because the potential cost of a nuclear disaster is unimaginably high….
Nuclear power stations and nuclear waste dumps in outback Australia, Fiona Lake Australian Photographs, 24 march 11, Where should nuclear power stations and nuclear waste dumps be located, in Australia? In the heart of our largest city, Sydney. Oh but what if there is an accident? Well if there is any, any, chance of an accident – then we must not have a nuclear power station or nuclear waste dump in Australia at all. Continue reading
South Australian Premier rules out nuclear power and uranium enrichment
No enrichment or nuclear plant on my watch: Rann , ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), 23 March 11, Premier Mike Rann has used State Parliament to hose down the possibility of uranium enrichment or nuclear power plants in South Australia.Mineral Resources Minister Tom Koutsantonis and Olympic Dam Minister Kevin Foley broke with ALP policy this week when they made public comments in support of an expansion of the industry.Mr Rann told Parliament no companies had expressed an interest in building a nuclear power plant in SA.He made clear again his support for ALP policy on nuclear issues……..No enrichment or nuclear plant on my watch: Rann – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Scrap new Australian nuclear waste legislation, says Oxfam
“As a signatory to the Declaration, Australia has committed to obtaining the free, prior, and informed consent of Indigenous peoples before adopting laws and policies which may affect them. Oxfam said it believes the government should reinstate the present Aboriginal Land Rights Act consultative and decision making processes for determining radioactive waste disposal sites.
Nuclear waste law must wait until Muckaty landowners’ objections heard in Court, says Oxfam International Business Times, March 22, 2011 The Gillard government should not try to pass legislation that would allow a national radioactive waste dump on Muckaty Land Trust in the Northern Territory before the Federal Court case opposing it lodged by some traditional owners of the Land Trust is heard, Oxfam Australia said today. Continue reading
Despite uranium lobby’s hype, future market is in doubt
“Australians will note also that the Fukushima disaster is prompting India to review its own nuclear safety. Following the crisis in Japan, and in the glare of the Indian media, the intended expansion of India’s nuclear footprint may well slow or even stall,”
Australia weighs nuclear push after Japan crisis Reuters By Rob Taylor, CANBERRA Mar 22, 2011 “……….Those conditions could add even more complexity, and potentially costs, to bilateral nuclear safeguards agreements focused previously on the spread of nuclear weapons.
“Australians will note also that the Fukushima disaster is prompting India to review its own nuclear safety. Following the crisis in Japan, and in the glare of the Indian media, the intended expansion of India’s nuclear footprint may well slow or even stall,” Medcalf said. Continue reading
Penny Wong speaks out for renewable energy, against nuclear power for Australia
“We have had an underinvestment in the energy sector.”
Senator Wong said setting a carbon price would give investors certainty. She said it would give an incentive to investors to look to cleaner energy.
Penny Wong rejects uranium push as key MPs back expansion of industry * By Christopher Russell , The Advertiser * March 22, 2011 , SENIOR federal South Australian minister Penny Wong has warned against the state becoming involved in the nuclear enrichment industry. Senator Wong, a former climate change minister, said on ABC radio that enriching uranium or even having nuclear power stations was “not the sort of vision I want for SA”. Continue reading
Uranium conference in Adelaide hears govt enthusiasm for nuclear power
Key MPs back expansion of nuclear industry in South Australia | Adelaide Now, Christopher Russell and Sarah Martin, March 22, 2011 TWO senior Rann Government ministers have backed the expansion of Australia’s nuclear industry.Former treasurer Kevin Foley yesterday said Australia should embrace nuclear power. Continue reading
Uranium miner Paladin blames the media for uranium shares crash
Uranium miner slams nuclear ‘media frenzy’, ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) Elysse Morgan Mar 17, 2011 The chief executive of one of Australia’s biggest uranium miners, Paladin, has slammed the media and share traders for their treatment of nuclear focused businesses in the wake of the Japanese earthquake.Shares in the company plunged 33 per cent in trade over Monday and Tuesday, recovered a little on Wednesday and are now on the slide again, down 6.8 per cent to $3.45 by 3:25pm (AEDT).Paladin’s chief executive John Borshoff says uranium centred businesses have become a sideshow to the Japanese crisis….Uranium miner slams nuclear ‘media frenzy’ – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
South Australian govt wants to enrich uranium in S.A.
In a bullish speech to a uranium conference in Adelaide, Mr Koutsantonis dubbed the reaction to the Fukushima crisis as ”hysteria”, and said nuclear power remained “the path for the future”..
SA call for uranium enrichment at home, Sydney Morning Herald, Peter Ker, Adelaide, March 22, 2011A SPECULATION about the demise of the uranium industry has been fiercely challenged by the South Australian government, which yesterday suggested Australia should expand its relationship with uranium to include domestic enrichment Continue reading
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