Join us at the Hart’s Mill market on Sundays 20th March and 17 April from 9-2pm Mundy St Port Adelaide – on the wharf front.
We’ll have our stall and be inviting people to sign our ACF/CCSA/FOE postcards to the Premier – SA Too Good to Waste. You can sign online at the link http://www.conservationsa.org.au/too_good_to_waste
Hope to see you there!
Enquiries: robyn.wood@foe.org.au
Our next Nuclear Free SA coalition meeting will be at the Joinery, Conservation Council, 111 Franklin St Adelaide at 6pm Thursday 24th March.
Please join us.
The deadline for submissions to the Royal Commission interim findings is Friday March 18.
http://nuclearrc.sa.gov.au/tentative-findings/
You can send an email to the Premier and your MPs with one easy step at the Conservation Council’s handy link http://www.conservationsa.org.au/nuclear_action
You can invite friends and family to sign our postcard to Jay online here – please circulate the link to your networks.
Contact robyn.wood@foe.org.au for more information
All welcome to the next Nuclear Free SA Coalition meeting at 6pm 25th February at the Joinery, Conservation Council 111 Franklin St Adelaide.
For a copy of the agenda please email adelaide.office@foe.org.au
Hope to see you there!
The Nuclear Royal Commission announced its tentative findings on Monday 15 February and Commissioner Scarce spoke at the Adelaide Town Hall that night. There were lots of nuclear critics in attendance and many made their displeasure known both outside and inside the meeting.
The report is available here http://nuclearrc.sa.gov.au/tentative-findings/
Responses to the findings are being accepted until 18 March 2016 – details at the above link. You will need a coversheet but no JP signature this time.
A summary of the tentative findings by Dr Jim Green is found here Jim G Tentative Findings Feb 2016
The report was positive about expanding uranium mining and importing international high level waste, but said enrichment and nuclear power were not economic.
We are concerned that the dangers of importing the world’s nuclear waste are being ignored and we are skeptical of the exorbitant claims of how much money this would bring into SA and how many jobs would be created. The dump proposal includes a new deepwater port, rail and airport as well as an interim storage facility.
MEDIA RELEASE
Friday 13th November 2015
NATIONAL NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP IN SA:
TROJAN HORSE FOR AN INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR WASTE DUMP?
The Federal Government has released the shortlist of six sites for the location of a national radioactive waste dump. Three of these sites are in South Australia.
Friends of the Earth Adelaide is cautious about the Federal Governments genuine commitment to a voluntary site nomination and selection process.
“The test will be how the government handles community opposition, how inclusive and transparent the site selection process will be, and how it will handle the issue of existing South Australian legislation banning the establishment of a nuclear waste dump,” said Nectaria Calan of Friends of the Earth Adelaide.
The National Radioactive Waste Management Act 2012, the Act governing the site selection process, over-rides existing state legislation prohibiting the establishment of a nuclear waste dump.
“Will the Federal Government impose a nuclear waste dump on states that have legislated against it, or communities that do not want it?” asked Ms Calan.
“The location of a waste dump cannot simply be decided through individual nominations,” said Ms Calan. “It affects the wider community, particularly those in close proximity to the site. Radioactive contamination knows no property boundaries. The principle of voluntarism extends beyond the individual where an action has wider ramifications,” continued Ms Calan.
“There is yet to be an independent inquiry into all our radioactive waste management options, so the nominations process is premature,” said Ms Calan.
Additionally, here in South Australia the Royal Commission into the Nuclear Fuel Cycle is considering the feasibility of an international nuclear waste dump.
“Will a national nuclear waste repository in SA be the trojan horse for an international high level nuclear waste dump down the track?” asked Ms Calan.
“Rather than considering existing nuclear waste in Australia as an intractable problem, the SA government and some proponents of the nuclear industry seem to consider radioactive waste a business opportunity and want to import it, astounding given that so far globally there has been no success in establishing even one facility for the long term storage of high level waste.”… Read more >>