Coalition Joins Labor in PLan to Impose Nuclear Waste Dump on the Northern Territory
“Fourteen years worth of research that was conducted that identified 15 sites around Australia, none of which were in the Northern Territory.
Coalition to support nuclear waste dump, ABC News 9 March 2010, The Federal Opposition has confirmed it will support the Government’s plan for a nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory. oday, the Opposition’s resources spokesman, Nick Minchin, said the Government’s bill reflects long-standing Coalition policy. Continue reading
Women walking to Canberra to oppose NT nuclear waste dump
“We will also be talking to people about the deadly effects of the nuclear cycle and draw attention to people that Australia is contributing to the nuclear cycle by digging up uranium and how the government is planning to open a nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory.”
Cassie joins peace walk, Ipswich Queensland Times. 9th March 2010 On Saturday Ms McMahon will join a 1400km walk from Brisbane to Canberra to encourage a peaceful and sustainable future as part of the Women’s International Peace Walk. Continue reading
A reminder of uranium mining’s connection with nuclear weapons
Secretive Arms Tycoon Behind New Uranium Mine | The Media Freedom Foundation, 9 March 2010, James
Neal Blue, who helped devise the Predator unmanned aircraft that are in use in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, is the director of a company that bought the Four Mile uranium mine in Australia. Blue is the chairman of Quasar Resources, which is affiliated with General Atomics, a major United States weapons and nuclear energy corporation. Continue reading
Australia’s shame – the treatment of atomic test veterans
They were given little protection against the radiation and were simply told to turn their backs on the explosions
Treatment of atom bomb veterans a ‘national disgrace’, Sydney Morning Herald JENNIE CURTIN, February 28, 2010 ONE of Australia’s most respected military figures has joined veterans’ groups in calling for war benefits to be paid to Australian servicemen who were exposed to British atom bomb tests in the 1950s. Continue reading
Foreign uranium companies, including Australian, endanger Niger’s water
water in the region had 10 times the level of radioactivity considered safe.
Niger’s uranium coup, boilingspot: 7 March 2010 On February 18, Niger’s President Mamadou Tandja was overthrown in a military coup. A military junta calling itself the Supreme Council for the Restoration of Democracy, headed by Major Salou Djibo, took power Tony Iltis | Green Left Online | 6 March 2010 “……the junta is unlikely to confront the causes of Niger’s extreme poverty: Western-imposed neoliberal austerity and the environmentally and socially destructive plunder of natural resources, particularly uranium……. Continue reading
Who pays for nuclear power’s “Front End” and “Back end” ?
Who pays for the hidden costs of nuclear power? Why don’t we talk about the short and long-term costs of the “Front End” – the uranium industry, and of the” Back End” – finished nuclear reactors, and nuclear wastes. (Doncha love that euphemism “Decommissioning” of the dead nuclear reactors? )
Govt will give aborigines housing, education – in exchange for hosting radioactive waste!
Aborigines being exploited over nuclear waste dump, says Scott Ludlam, Herald Sun By Larine Statham From: AAP, March 04, ABORIGINES should not be forced to trade their country for housing and education, Greens Senator Scott Ludlam says.
Ferguson peddling lies about nuclear medicine
Martin Ferguson is now pushing the idea that there must be a nuclear waste dump at Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory if Australians want to have nuclear medicine
What utter nonsense! Sure – the nuclear wastes that originated at Lucas Heights in Sydney, and the medical radioactive wastes that exist in hospitals around the country – have to go somewhere. And that could be anywhere – e.g on Commonwealth land in South Australia, or perhaps on site at Lucas Heights.
One day, Australia and the rest of the world, will have to face up to the growing problem of medical radioactive waste. But to say that aboriginal land in the Northern Territory is the only solution, – that is just a straight-out lie.
Martin Ferguson secretive about nuclear waste dump plan
Ferguson tight-lipped on nuclear dump talks, By Melinda James, ABC News, Mar 3, 2010
The federal Resources Minister will not reveal if he is meeting with any of the traditional owners of Muckaty Station, which has been slated as the site for a national nuclear waste dump. 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
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
Pacific islanders fear radiation at nuclear test islands
Abon sees resettlement of Rongelap Atoll as “impossible” because only a small part of the atoll has had its nuclear contamination cleaned, while the population has grown significantly, meaning they need to use more islands to comfortably resettle.
ISLANDERS LOATH TO RETURN TO NUKED HOME, PACIFIC ISLANDS REPORT March 2, 2010,
“….March 1 is a national holiday that recognizes Nuclear Victims Day in the Marshall Islands. This year, which marks the 25th year since Rongelap Islanders’ self-evacuated their radioactive islands, islanders are facing a U.S. ultimatum: move back to Rongelap in 2011 or face cutoff of funding support for the “temporary” community at Mejatto Island in Kwajalein Atoll, where about 400 islanders have lived since their 1985 evacuation….. 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.
Nuclear industry decides on Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Radiation Safety Standards
-policing their own industry just like the banking and financial industry did before their massive taxpayer bailout
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 – “In the United States, the NRC’s technical and safety regulations governing nuclear power plants are developed by the private nuclear industry using voluntary consensus standards. Continue reading
Cancer in U.S. soldiers related to depleted uranium
Iraq: An Environmental Cesspool, THE HUFFINGTON POST, R. B. Stuart, 1 March 2010, While the war in Iraq winds down, the cases of soldiers being diagnosed with rare, aggressive forms of cancer post deployment heats up. Not only do soldiers have to contend with side stepping roadside bombs during their tour, but radiological dust from depleted Uranium, Continue reading
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