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
Australian soldiers used as guinea pigs in Maralinga nuclear tests
The veterans say they were used as guinea pigs to gauge the impact of radiation on humans.
Maralinga blast survivors sue | The Courier-Mail,Ian McPhedran, March 03, 2010, About 200 former military personnel who worked at or near the test sites and up to 100 Aboriginal residents of blast-affected land will join 800 British ex-servicemen suing for damages. Continue reading
Lax security at BHP’s Yeelirrie uranium tailings dump
Children accessing old uranium site ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)Mar 3, 2010 BHP Billiton says it will step up security at an old uranium testing site in Kalgoorlie after concerns children are accessing the area.Labor’s candidate for the federal seat of O’Connor, Ian Bishop, says damage to a security gate has allowed children to enter the site at Hannan’s north on dirt bikes. More than 5,000 tonnes of tailings from the Yeelirrie uranium deposit, near Wiluna, were buried in the area after BHP stopped testing ore-processing there in the 1980s.
Greens Senator warns on divisive effects of nuclear waste dump on Aboriginal land
Australian Greens Senator Scott Ludlam says the plan to build a radioactive waste dump in the region has become extremely divisive.
Aborigines discuss nuclear proposal on tribal land By Phil Mercer,BBC News, 3 march 2010, Sydney Aboriginal groups have held a public meeting to debate controversial plans to build Australia’s first nuclear waste dump on tribal land…. Continue reading
Open your eyes, Australia, on nuke dumping on Aboriginal land
Australian aboriginals to discuss nuclear proposal on tribal land, Open Your Eyes News 4 March 2010 First you steal their land; then you wipe out 90% of their population, mainly through diseases; then you steal their children; then you use their land for nuclear bomb testing; then you count them as “flora & forna” in censuses until 1967; and then you dump the world’s nuclear waste on the desert land that you recently and reluctantly gave back.
Open Your Eyes News » Australian aboriginals to discuss nuclear proposal on tribal land
Australia needs job-rich renewable energy, not nuclear power
If Australia aimed to build a renewable energy sector that represented 5 per cent of the global market by 2030 we could realise some 500,000 jobs in our renewable energy industry and finally take advantage of our advanced research base.
Responsibly addressing the urgency of climate change cannot afford to be delayed or misled by nuclear industry hype.
Nuclear energy: money can’t buy love, ABC, david Noonan, 3 March 2010, The truth is investment in nuclear energy means massive capital costs and very low employment benefits…. Continue reading
Justice sought for “Woomera babies”, aborigines, servicemen
“We are dealing with generations of people who have been affected by radiation from the fallout and who have never had that acknowledged,”
“The medical science now exists in order to prove these injuries are linked to the tests.”
Aborigines to sue British Government over nuclear tests Telegraph.co UK By Bonnie Malkin, 02 Mar 2010 “…..Among the Australians seeking compensation are families of the “Woomera babies” – 60 infants who died, some without explanation, during the decade of testing. Woomera lies 600km west of the test site at Maralinga and some believe the town could have been affected by fallout from the nuclear blasts.
Other alleged victims of the blasts have told of a “black mist” of fallout descending on their homes after the explosions. Continue reading
Gloomy long term trend for uranium prices
Two Death Crosses on price charts for Australia’s two leading producers of uranium. What does this tell investors?FNArena News – March 02 2010 , By Rudi Filapek-Vandyck A recent sector report by Canadian stockbrokers Haywood Securities has revealed that price charts for many international uranium stocks carry the so-called “Cross of Death”. This is when a shorter term trendline moves below the longer term trendline and stays beneath it.
From a technical-market momentum point of view, such occurrence indicates the underlying trend has now become negative (bearish), Continue reading
Review- Australia:nuke waste dump, USA states’ opposition to nuclear industry
Australia: Nuke waste dump for aboriginal land, but opposition is growing.. S.A. govt to subsidise BHP’s Olympic Dam uranium mine, Rudd govt improves (we hope) Renewable Energy legislation.
International: While Obama rewards his corporate backers with $8 billion in nuclear loan guarantees, legislatures in 3 states knock back nuclear power- Vermont to close nuke reactor, West Virginia to retain no new nukes policy, Arizona refuses to include nuclear as “renewable”. Bloody political coup in Niger welcomed by uranium industry.
Uranium conference perpetuating lies about radiation
Losses don’t take shine off silver lining, Sydney Morning Herald, SCOTT ROCHFORT March 2, 2010‘GOOD’ RADIATION Scientific findings were aired at a conference yesterday confirming that radiation can actually be good for you. Continue reading
“Gen 3” nuclear reactors are duds, but unproven Gen 4 a “public good”!
Intriguing that even the uranium industry is now being told that the Olkiluoto-3 ‘Generation III+’ nuke reactor is a dud. But never mind, the Australian government should support (?fund) the as yet undeveloped and untested Generation IV nuclear reactors! Continue reading
Nuclear waste dump siting shows Australian govt’s contempt for Aboriginal rights
“Article 29 of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which Labor says they support, clearly prohibits the imposition of toxic waste onto Indigenous land without consent. I know my family and many others from that country are fighting hard against this. We as Aboriginal people intend to enforce our rights.”
Stop Dumping on Aboriginal Rights Aboriginal News Group 26 Feb 2010, 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
Wind farm revival depends Federal Govt’s renewables policy
Wind farm revived after change of rules , Ricks Wallace, The Australian, March 02, 2010 CONSTRUCTION of Australia’s largest wind farm has moved a step closer, with AGL announcing it has entered into contractual agreements with its joint-venture partner on the project.The decision by AGL and New Zealand’s Meridian Energy to forge ahead with the $800 million project comes after the Rudd government’s move last week to revamp its failing renewable energy target scheme. Continue reading
Some hope for renewal of Australia’s renewable energy industries
Environmental markets spring back to life as energy target rules change, Giles Parkinson, The Australian March 01, 2010 AUSTRALIA’S environmental markets have sprung into life after the government announced proposed amendments to the Renewable Energy Target, creating hope that Australia may finally be able to rid itself of an unwanted reputation as a dead-end for the renewable energy industry.
Environmental markets spring back to life as energy target rules change | The Australian
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