South Australian tax-payers will help BHP’s uranium mine to be “viable”
for the Olympic Dam Task Force to assist owner BHP Billiton in proving the viability of this project.
State funding to support Olympic Dam expansion – URANIUM, Mineweb , Ross Louthean, 01 Mar 2010 Continue reading
Local community Defeats Corporation over Yankee Nuclear Power Plant
People Power Trumps Corporate Power:R.I.P Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Plant, Counter Currents, Kathleen Krevetski Interviewed By Carolyn Baker01 March, 2010 “…..Kathleen Krevetski “Last week’s vote against the relicensing of the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power plant near Brattleboro is considered historic because it has allowed the voices of Vermont people to be heard through their elected leaders who voted against allowing Vermont Yankee to continue past its expected lifetime of 2012. Continue reading
Liberals will support nuclear waste dump on aboriginal land
Vote closer on Australia’s first nuclear waste dump: minister, ABC News, Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop, 2 March 2010
Australia’s Resources and Energy Minister, Martin Ferguson, says parliament is set to pass laws that could see Australia’s first nuclear waste dump built in the Northern Territory…”I have had discussions with the coalition and all being well there is now a maturity in the debate which means we will now pass legislation supported by the major political parties in Australia,” he said.
ABC Radio Australia News:Stories:Vote closer on Australia’s first nuclear waste dump: minister
Uranium mining’s damage to Native Americans
Throughout the Diné Nation, Diné families have been subject to decades of radioactive contamination
Uranium Mining Begins Near Grand Canyon: Thousands of Claims Threaten Public Health & Sacred Lands :: Peace, Earth & Justice News Feb 24, 2010 Grand Canyon, AZ — In defiance of legal challenges and a U.S. Government moratorium, Canadian company Denison Mines has started mining uranium on the north rim of the Grand Canyon. 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
Big money push for nuclear power, nuclear waste dumps in Australia
Big money can be made by a few, for Australia to become an international nuclear waste dump. Hence the push for (completely uneconomic) nuclear power in Australia. THE TRUE COSTS OF NUCLEAR POWER – our theme for March
Martin Ferguson’s nuke waste dump on aboriginal land might not succeed
Traditional owners opposed to the radioactive waste dump will continue to fight to keep their country clean – and they may prevail after yet another protracted struggle.
NT nuclear waste dump — traditional owners say no Green Left. Natalie Wasley, Alice Springs, 26 February 2010 “… the minister’s new legislation entrenches another unfair process which began under the former Howard government. Continue reading
Nuclear Waste Dumped on Land of Poverty-stricken Indigenous Americans
Nuclear Waste On Native American Reservations. The Good Human. February 28th, 2010, Native tribes across the American West have been and continue to be subjected to significant amounts of radioactive and otherwise hazardous waste as a result of living near nuclear test sites, uranium mines, power plants and toxic waste dumps. Continue reading
South Australian families join class action over Maralinga radiation
Secrecy surrounding the disturbing rate of baby deaths and research suggesting fallout from tests blanketed the town despite being more than 600km from the Maralinga testing sites, warrants those families investigating claims as part of the class act,
100 South Australians join class action against Britain for Maralinga-related deaths Adelaide Now, BRYAN LITTLELY INVESTIGATIONS EDITOR, From: The Advertiser, March 01, 2010, SECRET records detailing the fate of dozens of babies born in the shadow of Maralinga’s nuclear testing hold the key to a case building as the state’s largest class action Continue reading
USA – tide turning against nuclear power
Anti-nuclear bills passed in Vermont, West Virginia, and Arizona
The nuclear industry may think it’s on the verge of a revival, but the people of the United States are saying something very different! Beyond Nuclear 27 Feb 2010 Continue reading
Water, not money, might kill off nuclear industry
Water could the be issue that sinks this project, or it could be numerous other funding and safety issues related to nuclear power.
Water Issues Derailing Nuclear Power in Utah SpeakEasy by Tara Lohan , February 26, 2010 Nuclear power has been a hot topic these past few weeks with Vermont’s leaking reactor, Continue reading
Secret nuclear waste dump deal done by ruthless Australian govt
no comparable country had a national radioactive waste policy based on secret documents and agreements.
Fallout over NT nuclear dump site, LINDSAY MURDOCH AND TOM ARUP, February 27, 2010
Dianne Stokes says the Rudd government’s decision to push ahead with plans to dump nuclear waste on the red-soil land north of Tennant Creek has caused trouble in her Warlmanpa tribe. ”People have given away land that doesn’t belong to them … now there is big trouble among us,” she said. 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…”
If Australia “goes nuclear” South Australia will get the radioactive waste dump
High-level nuclear waste will be created if Australia goes nuclear.But spent fuel rods would be kept underwater at the reactor site for 70 years and then buried one kilometres below ground.A site has already been identified for that dump _ Territorians might be pleased to known that it’s just across the border in South Australia.Group of 40 okays NT nuclear dump | Northern Territory News | Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia | ntnews.com.au
Murky Muckaty nuclear deal by the Australian government
A lengthy scientific study had identified Outback South Australia as the best site for the dump.
But SA is a State and, therefore, had the constitutional power denied the Northern Territory to tell Canberra where to go.
Group of 40 okays NT nuclear dump | Northern Territory News,NIGEL ADLAM February 27th, 2010
the nuclear waste dump deal was done – not with the 395 people who consider themselves traditional owners of the whole of Muckaty but with the 40 who are recognised as the traditional owners of the small waste dump site. Continue reading
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