Nuclear at Port Augusta? No Way!
A large crowd at the Port Augusta anti-nuke meeting on Wednesday, 30th April agreed that nuclear power made no economic or ecological sense, and that renewables were the preferred option.
I’ve just returned from a powerful community meeting where a group of Aboriginal people came down from Port Augusta to tell people in the marginal SA electorate of Sturt about their opposition to the Coalition’s plans to build a nuclear reactor in their town.
Clinton (Stano) Dadleh, Aunty June Lennon, Aunty Vivienne McKenzie, Uncle Lindsay Thomas, Glen Wingfield (via Zoom) and Rhenee Lester gave moving accounts of their lived experience of Port Augusta and the impact of the nuclear industry on their families, while Dr Kate Wylie (Doctors for the Environment) and Dr Jim Green (Friends of the Earth) critiqued the Coalition’s nuclear plan in detail.
For those who couldn’t make it, the meeting was live streamed and can now be viewed on the following link:
Philip White
(Friends of the Earth Adelaide)
Election related material authorised by Cam Walker, Friends of the Earth, 312 Smith St, Collingwood, VIC, 3066