Cherie Blair to help atomic test veterans Mirror News UK By Susie Boniface 4/04/2010 Cherie Blair is helping atomic test veterans sue the Government in a multi-million-pound lawsuit.Three hundred Australian survivors – ex-military staff and civilians including 100 Aborigines -say radiation from British tests in Oz left them with a legacy of cancers, rare medical conditions and defects in their children.
The leading human rights lawyer’s husband Tony Blair insisted while PM they were not affected and blocked their claims.The Sunday Mirror has campaigned for justice for the veterans, widows and children who won the right to sue the Ministry of Defence last year.Aborigines’ campaigner Neil Gillespie said of Cherie: “She is as sharp as a Samurai sword.”
Cherie Blair to help atomic test veterans – mirror.co.uk
April 5, 2010
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Labor’s Nuclear-Powered Steamroller, newmatilda.com, By Jennifer Mills 16 April 2010, ……….Speaking about that Act before the last federal election, the then shadow minister for the environment Peter Garret said, “this has been a sorry and a sordid business driven by a licensing imperative for nuclear processes that no one has consented to. This [Howard] government continues to make a mockery of the principle of informed consent, of community participation and of respect for the wishes and interests of Aboriginal people in this country.” Continue reading →
April 4, 2010
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critics said Labor merely rebadged the coalition’s policy
Protesters ejected from Senate nuclear inquiryAAP * March 30, 2010 PROTESTERS have been ejected from a Senate inquiry hearing on a nuclear waste dump to be built in the heart of Australia.A Senate committee is examining the National Radioactive Waste Management Bill 2010.
With the bill, Labor kept an election promise to repeal coalition legislation to build a dump, and put in place a new process.But critics said Labor merely rebadged the coalition’s policy because finding a new site for the dump was too difficult, and they have attacked the consultation process……………
Mr Sweeney, who will give evidence at the hearing today, said security guards peacefully removed the protesters from the room.
The protesters were not associated with ACF.
The government is considering Muckaty Station, 120 kilometres north of Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory, for the dump site, after it was nominated by some of its traditional owners.
Protesters ejected from Senate nuclear inquiry | News.com.au
April 2, 2010
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Kalgoorlie residents protest against uranium industry, ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), Mar 27, 2010
Traditional owners from across WA have joined residents and politicians in an anti-uranium protest in Kalgoorlie. The protesters are opposed to development in WA’s emerging uranium industry.
There are also concerns about BHP Billiton’s plans to transport yellow cake from its proposed Yeelirrie mine near Wiluna to Kalgoorlie where it will be loaded on to freight trains bound for Adelaide or Darwin.
Kalgoorlie residents protest against uranium industry – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
March 29, 2010
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To this day the families of those harmed by radiation at Three Mile Island have been denied the right to make their case in federal court.
The Legacy of Three Mile Island: It Could Happen Again At Any Time HARVEY WASSERMAN, BUZZFLASH, 27 March 2010, As radiation poured from 3 Mile Island 31 years ago this weekend, utility executives rested easy. They knew that no matter how many people their errant nuke killed, and no matter how much property it destroyed, they would not be held liable. Today this same class of executives demands untold taxpayer billions to build still more TMIs. No matter how many meltdowns they cause, and how much havoc they visit down on the public, they still believe they’re above the law. Continue reading →
March 29, 2010
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Toxic legacy for tribes, High Country News, Caitlin Sislin | Mar 26, 2010 Earlier this month, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals approved a controversial permit for uranium mining operations at sites in Church Rock, New Mexico. The operation includes a site associated with the largest release of liquid radioactive waste in United States History — a catastrophe which continues, a generation later, to negatively impact the lives and health of Navajo people residing near the spill site. Continue reading →
March 26, 2010
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“Traditional Owners, Tennant residents and Barkly region pastoralists are extremely disappointed that the Senate Committee will not sit in Tennant Creek. The distance and cost to travel to Darwin makes it impossible for the majority of concerned people to attend the hearing,”
A public appeal is being launched to raise funds for Muckaty Traditional Owners to attend a Senate Inquiry hearing in Darwin on April 12.
The Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee is considering the recently tabled National Radioactive Waste Management Bill 2010, which identifies an area in the Muckaty Land Trust as the only site to be initially considered for a radioactive waste dump. Continue reading →
March 25, 2010
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if crew members and passengers already face largely unreported radiation risks from long-distance flying, we should have the right to know just how whole-body radiation scanning machines are part of this risk.
Flying and Excess Radiation, THE HUFFINGTON POST, Robert Alvarez: March 22, 2010 …..The recent reporting of dozens of cases of harm to patients from the misuse of CAT scans should serve as a cautionary warning.
Unfortunately, the doses of radiation experienced in every-day life, especially flying long-distances in jet aircraft, pose risks we should also carefully heed… Continue reading →
March 25, 2010
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Campaigners from around India have now joined the resistance movement set up by farmers and fishermen
India’s government withdraws nuclear power legislation – Nuclear Reaction 14 March, 2010, .”…….’Indian farmers battle against nuclear plant A robust people’s movement against a major nuclear power project has built up in a cluster of small villages on India’s picturesque Konkan coast. Continue reading →
March 18, 2010
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This study shows that both types of uranium may carry a health risk because they both affect DNA in ways that can lead to cancer.
Depleted and enriched uranium affect DNA in different ways. Environmental Health News, 16 March, 20201, Continue reading →
March 18, 2010
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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 →
March 15, 2010
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Uranium Major Niger Urged to Review Contracts, ABC News, NIAMEY (Reuters) 14 March 2010, – The new junta ruling in Niger, one of the world’s biggest uranium producers, should review and possibly renegotiate dozens of resource exploitation contracts, civil rights groups said on Saturday. Continue reading →
March 15, 2010
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Medical students unaware of radiation hazard, IBTHealth -15 Mar, 2010, Over half of medical students and junior doctors underestimate the amounts of radiation involved in regularly ordered scans with 25 per cent wrongly accept that magnetic resonance imaging emits radiation. Continue reading →
March 15, 2010
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A public appeal is being launched to raise funds for Muckaty Traditional Owners to attend a Senate Inquiry hearing in Darwin on April 12.
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