Sydney’s radioactive residential area will still be “hot” indefinitely
because of the extremely high radioactivity levels in the waste, it may be difficult to dump it
Clean-up deadline missed, Sydney Morning Herald BRIAN ROBINS, March 19, 2010, THE planned clean-up of the radioactive site at Hunters Hill is facing an indefinite delay. The government has missed its own deadline to begin the clean-up, and is yet to even start on the necessary paperwork….. Continue reading
Rudd prepares to open the uranium floodgates to Russia
Scott Ludlam 18th March 2010, On the eve of the most important international disarmament negotiations in a generation, the Rudd Government has foreshadowed uranium sales to Russia, which holds the world’s largest stockpile of nuclear weapons. Continue reading
Rann government cannot be trusted on environmental protection
Murray-Darling: deal or no deal? – Crikey, 17 March 2010, “……..Twice Rann was elected with a policy to stop new uranium mines. Three times SA got brand new or bigger uranium mines.There are environmental issues of real substance in this campaign, including a proposed uranium mine in the Arkaroola Wilderness north of Adelaide in the majestic Flinders Ranges.
In a submission to government this week, state museum scientists said their cross-discipline analysis was in no doubt: uranium mining there will cause species extinction.The Rann Government says it can be trusted to make the right decision on the Arkaroola Wilderness uranium mine after the election on March 20. It might allow it, it might not, is its present policy….”
S.A. election: Transparency needed – Who’s Behind Aboriginal Candidates?
to date it appears she not only allows another to speak for her, but also someone behind the scenes is running her campaign.
Many interesting questions have arisen from the candidacy of Lynette Crocker for a seat on the South Australian Legislative Council. by Mark M Aldridge, Independent Candidate for the Legislative Council 18 March, 2010 Continue reading
S.A. election: a word of warning about Aboriginal candidates
Aboriginal candidates are standing in the forthcoming South Australian election. Sounds good, BUT – a word of warning.
WHAT ARE THESE CANDIDATES’ AGENDA ON THE URANIUM INDUSTRY?
Sorry – but, I recall Maggie Thatcher’s dubious contribution to women’s issues. Being an aboriginal candidate is no guarantee of being properly informed on the longterm impact on aborigines of uranium mining. And, there is scope for pressure and incentives from that industry, and from that pro-nuclear State government.
The candidates are Lynette Crocker and Dylan Coleman Mastrosavas, ANTaR SA is helping Lynette and Dylan to stand as ‘Independent SA Change’
Dylan mobile. 0427537111 or Lynette on mobile 0400234788.
Blacks and Whites gather together against Muckaty Nuclear Waste Dump Plan
Alyawarr, Anungu (APY lands) Warlpiri, Anmatjirra, Arrente, Warramungu, NSW Land Council people – we are now joining together to make a stand at Uluru and will be calling on our Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal friends, unions and churches to stand with us.
Time to make a stand, Tennant & District Times 12 March 2010, – RICHARD DOWNS, SPOKESPERSON FOR THE ALYAWARR WALK-OFF CAMP. Last week Richard Downs, spokesperson for the Alyawarr Walk Off Camp, wrote to the Northern Land Council Chairman, Kim Hill, regarding the consultation process which eventuated in the nomination of Muckaty Station as the site for a nuclear dump. This is what he wrote: 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
ANSTO Partnering with French Nuclear Agency
Is it not odd t
hat the nuclear powers that be, are going ahead with new nuclear reactor projects, that are not only untested, but, it is openly admitted, for which there is no nuclear waste solution.!
Generation IV reactor systems are also being developed which will require new nuclear waste solutions.
Ansto bolsters research collaboration, World Nuclear News, 15 March 2010 .The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organization (Ansto) has widened its nuclear research cooperation with the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), as well as signing an agreement with an Australian university to conduct research into the storage of radioactive waste. Continue reading
Biodiversity is for future ages. Uranium mining is short term
When a respected institution known for its measured and considered responses to issues of public importance, such as the Museum, asks the Government to pay attention, it would be foolish to do otherwise.
A time to err on side of conservation, The Advertiser Editorial, March 16, 2010 THERE are certain places in the state and the nation which should be off limits for mining. Continue reading
South Australia’s museum rejects uranium mining in wilderness areas
The museum says the biodiversity evaluation in Seeking a Balance is “greatly flawed”.
South Australian mining plan would potentially kill off species Adelaide Now, Cameron England,
March 15, 2010 A STATE Government plan which would allow mining in sensitive parts of the Northern Flinders Ranges is “greatly flawed” and should be “rejected totally”, the SA Museum says. Continue reading
Move to set up Australia’s nuclear waste import industry
Good intentions…taking back nuclear waste, international environmental law, “….former Labor Foreign Minister Gareth Evans, now Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s point man on nuclear non-proliferation, echoed last month’s assertion by former Australian Labor Party Prime Minister Bob Hawke that the country had to view the establishment of a nuclear waste industry as a moral, financial and environmental response to climate change by expanding its role in the atomic energy fuel trade and taking back all waste generated in foreign nuclear power plants derived from the uranium it sells on the global market.
Evans’ proposal is at odds with the current policies of the Rudd government, which maintains that it will not import nuclear fuel waste,
Senate inquiry in to waste dump will not even go to the area
holding it from Darwin and from Canberra is a good way of staying a long way away from where the people are genuinely the most angry and have the most to lose
Senators urged to visit planned waste dump site – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), 15 March 2010, The Greens say a Senate inquiry into the Federal Government’s proposed radioactive waste management legislation will not visit the site of the proposed dump.The only location the Government is now considering is Muckaty Station, near Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory. 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
Australia’s young doctors ignorant about ionising radiation
Yearly, 400 new cases of cancer caused by CT scans
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