Good news for Australia’s environment, and for the Mirrar people. Energy Resources of Australia has finally pulled the plug on its uranium mining activities in Kakadu National Park. Of course it is financial unviability that forced this decision. And Rio Tinto the “parent company” is not a bit happy that it will probably have to fork out $millions to rehabilitate the site. Much credit has to go to the Mirrar people for their continued monitoring of this project. And to the heroic Jeffrey Lee, who donated his land, Koongarra, to Kakadu so that it would not be mined for uranium by AREVA.
But how long can white Australia expect the Aborigines to carry the fight against
this toxic nuclear industry threatening Australia?
Comical moment
Exactly on the day that the South Australian Nuclear Fuel Chain
Royal Commission arrived in France for extensive talks and tours of AREVA’s
advanced nuclear technology came the French government’s action of splitting
up AREVA, effectively killing it off as a nuclear power giant – due to its utterly
disastrous financial state.
Funny if it weren’t serious how South Australia’s greedy nuclear enthusiasts
are ready
to suck up to international nuclear business incompetents!
As the world’s poster child for nuclear power, France is suffering great
embarrassment as its government struggles to save the almost bankrupt nuclear
giant AREVA. Just saved, for the moment, AREVA is broken up in a messy
merger with EDF, which is also
struggling financially.
UK:
I loved this news item – definitely my favourite for the week! Desperate for
public support, the UK government plans to make
nuclear reactors look pretty!
JAPAN:
- High radiation levels mean long delays
in removing spent nuclear fuel from
Fukushima’s stricken reactors.
- Contaminated waste water in Fukushima: the unending horror
- Fukushima businesses
compensation payments terminated
- Youth Unwilling to Return
- Ministry to nationalize Fukushima site to bury radioactive waste
- Gov’t
Officials: Fukushima should be declared uninhabitable.
CANADA:
Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency’s ruling on
radioactive
waste
dump delayed till December – after the federal election, of course.
HUNGARY:
European Commission will rule in October on possible
illegality of State aid for nuclear expansion.
Economically unwise
decision for Hungary to buy nuclear reactors from Russia.
SOUTH KOREA:
Government advisory panel
recommends shutdown of South Korea’s oldest nuclear reactor. South Korea running
out of space for spent nuclear fuel.
Pronuclear propaganda. Especially on social media, nuclear and thorium power
trolls are ramping
up their attacks on critics of nuclear power.
AUSTRALIA:
Tony Abbott - my God, that man is an embarrassment to Australia! Even Environment Minister Christopher Pyne sees the writing on the wall in Abbott’s daft policies on climate.