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Radioactive Exposure Tour June 27 -July 8th 2015

January 20, 2015

The Radioactive Exposure Tour is a journey through Australia’s nuclear landscape. The Tour has exposed thousands of people to the realities of ‘radioactive racism’ and the environmental and social impacts of uranium mining, radioactive waste and nuclear expansion.

Run by Friends of the Earth, this year’s Tour will take place from Saturday June 27 to Wednesday July 8, 2015.

In 2014 we visited Muckaty Traditional Owners in the Northern Territory before their historic win, stopping a radioactive waste dump on their land. This year, we’re travelling to NSW in light of recent uranium exploration, and continuing on to South Australia.

Clean Futures, FoE, Mining, Nuclear, Uncategorized

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Yellowcake Uranium oxide accident at Outer Harbor

December 17, 2014

Yellowcake uranium oxide is transported by truck from the Olympic Dam mine at Roxby Downs in South Australia, through Port Adelaide to the docks at Outer Harbor, to be loaded onto ships for export.  The yellowcake is packed inside sealed drums in a shipping container on the truck.

Early in the evening of Friday October 3rd 2014 an accident occurred at Outer Harbor.  When the shipping container was being unloaded from the truck it slipped and fell to the ground.  Emergency services were called, but as this was an accident involving dangerous goods and Outer Harbor didn’t have the facilities to open the container to check for spillage, the Environment Protection Agency was also called in to advise.  After checking the container with a geiger counter, the EPA determined that there was no radioactivity measurable outside the container.

Actions, Clean Futures, FoE, Mining, Nuclear, Transport

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FoE Adelaide AGM Thurs 13 November

October 30, 2014

Join us at the Friends of the Earth Adelaide‘s AGM on Thursday 13th November 7:30pm at the Box Factory, 59 Regent St Adelaide.

Hear what our Fair Food Adelaide and Clean Futures Collectives have been up to and their plans for next year.  After a brief AGM we will screen the short film Farmlands Not Gaslands about the campaign to protect Victoria from unconventional gas fracking.

Refreshments provided.

Enquiries to robyn.wood@foe.org.au

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BHP-Billiton AGM Public Action Nov 20th

October 29, 2014

BHP’s Annual General Meeting will be held in Adelaide at the Entertainment Centre 98 Port Rd, Hindmarsh, on Thursday 20th November 2015.

Join us from 9-10:30am to voice your support for the brave community voices heading into the AGM with support from BHP Shareholder for social responsibility to ask the hard questions about environmental destructions, community consultation, lack of responsibility and future risks.

Actions, Clean Futures, Climate, FoE, Mining, Nuclear, Transport, Weapons proliferation