Antinuclear

Australian news, and some related international items

Marathon uranium exploration waste dump was radioactive

wastesWaste, not bags, the problem: Greens
ABC News 8 Sept 09
Greens MP Mark Parnell has challenged a claim by Marathon Resources that waste it dumped illegally at Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary was not radioactive……. Continue reading

September 8, 2009 Posted by | South Australia, uranium | , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Australia: a nuclear waste colony?

a-cat-CANby Christina Macopherson 11 August 09

Australia started out as a colony of Britain. We became a strategic and cultural colony of Los Angeles. We’re sort of a beginning economic colony of China and others.

But hey! Australia can become a nuclear waste colony of everybody! This idea has been on the table since Pangea in the 1970’s , and since John White’s Australian Nuclear Fuel Leasing (ANFL)in more recent years.They spent $45 million up until Sept 2007 in promoting this.

“Such companies are effectively “middlemen” in the nuclear fuel industry and are likely to be sustained so long as the volume of Australian uranium exports is maintained or increased. …Herald Sun George Lekakis – February 28, 2007.……………”

August 11, 2009 Posted by | Christina reviews, uranium | , , , , , | Leave a comment