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
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
Mapping Queensland’s potential for wind eneergy
…..The Queensland Wind Map can be downloaded free from www.cleanenergy.qld.gov.au
Queensland’s clean wind energy potential mapped My Sunshine Coast, 28 Feb 2010, Stephen Robertson The Bligh Government has released a map of Queensland’s wind energy potential to help lead clean energy companies to prime development sites in Queensland. 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
BHP’s Yeelirrie uranium mining poses riskes to groundwater, and to biodiversity
the report had “glazed over” a lot of the research into the mine’s
potential environmental impact…”There’s potential for leakages and spills … there is a great concern for contamination of water.”
BHP uranium report unveils risks, MICHAEL BENNETT, The West Australian February 27, 2010,
BHP Billiton documents have revealed the company’s proposed $17 billion Yeelirrie uranium mine could threaten vulnerable animal species previously found in the area. Continue reading
Darwin to Adelaide Railway Planned for Transport of Imported Nuclear Waste
discussions were under way with the Yanks to store the US Nuclear Waste in Australia, and transport it with the Railway to ‘secure places’ in the NT Centre.
New Matilda, Markob 24/02/10 “… the Darwin to Alice train, built for no purpose other than a nuke waste train (it certainly, at a cost of $2billion-the interest on which is around $300k/day- had no economic upside or value, Continue reading
Should we allow bribing of a few to bring radioactive poisons to future generations?
It raises the question tho, should a community, or NLC, on receiving a bribe…have the right to approve a dump when it is the next 1000 generations who may have to…wear the impact of leakage?
New Matilda, Markob 24/02/10 “…the problem of allowing local communities to decide these things, for different reasons than Ferguson’s. This community clearly feels that this is not right – why would you put a waste dump at the confluence of 3 major rivers?- but that can change, unlikely as it sounds. It raises the question tho, should a community, or NLC, on receiving a bribe such as annual income and new housing, some jobs guarding a dump, sw pool etc, have the right to approve a dump when it is the next 1000 generations who may have to do repair work, or wear the impact of leakage? Who should decide?
Land rights are one thing, self determination another great principle, but what happens when the guardians simply want their people to have an acceptable standard of living and are sick of watching babies die, and sign anything?
ANSTO Should store its own nuclear waste at Lucas Heights
requiring ANSTO to store its own waste is the best — and perhaps the only — way of focusing the organisation’s collective mind on the importance of waste minimisation principles.
Ferguson to Dump Nuc lear Waste on Soft Target New Matilda, By Natalie Wasley 24 Feb 2010, Continue reading
Nuclear stillbirth for Australia and the world
No doubt Australian nuclear enthusiasts, such as Ziggy Switkowski and Barry Brook, will claim that Obama’s decision vindicates their nuclear advocacy. But really it deviates from their version of reality so far as to shatter it.
Nuclear? It’s just too expensive, for us and the rest of the world, Sudney Morning Herald MICHAEL R. JAMES February 26, 2010 Continue reading
No need for radioactive waste dump on aboriginal land – Public Health Association
there is no need then to have a waste dump unless there is an intention to import waste from overseas.
CONTRADICTION BETWEEN LABOR NUCLEAR WASTE PLAN AND INDIGENOUS HEALTH POLICY – Public Health Association of Australia 26 Feb 2010, Continue reading
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