Nuclear – Friends of the Earth Adelaide

AUKUS and the implications for Australia’s domestic nuclear landscape

roman May 25, 2023

National anti-nuclear campaign online meeting: Saturday morning May 27

The purpose of this meeting is to strengthen our collective anti-nuclear campaign work with an emphasis on the risks that AUKUS will:

i) strengthen the push for domestic nuclear power (at the expense of the necessary and happening renewable energy transition)
ii) facilitate national and international nuclear waste dumping in Australia
iii) facilitate more uranium mining and potentially other steps in the nuclear fuel cycle such as uranium enrichment
iv) undermine federal Labor’s commitment to signing and ratifying the Treaty on the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
We won’t be discussing the deeper militarism and foreign policy concerns around AUKUS but will focus on the domestic nuclear sector risks outlined above.

People interested in and involved in anti-nuclear campaigning are invited to attend and help develop a platform to ring-fence and constrain the wider pro-nuclear momentum the AUKUS plan is generating.

Please RSVP to jim.green@foe.org.au or dave.sweeney@acf.org.au

Date and time: Saturday May 27, 10.30am to 12.30 pm eastern time, 10am SA, 8.30am WA. Zoom details below.

For background see the ACF paper: AUKUS and Australia’s Nuclear Landscape – ACF – May 2023 .
See also David Noonan’s paper on AUKUS and nuclear waste online.

Schedule: 4 x 30 minute sessions

Nuclear Power ? lead speakers Jim Green (FoE) and Trevor Gauld (ETU)

Waste

— proposed national dump at Kimba: speakers tbc

— intermediate and international waste: David Noonan
Uranium: Mia Pepper (CCWA) and Dave Sweeney (ACF)
Weapons: ICAN speaker/s

Zoom details

Join Zoom Meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/9256268989?pwd=OFVmNkhYdVFSWnhidUFXYVZGSmZxUT09

Meeting ID: 925 626 8989, Passcode: 3101952

Nuclear, Old_Notes

ACF open letter to the Resources Minister on nuclear waste

roman September 5, 2022

Open letter:

“As people from all across Australia, we call on the federal government and Resources Minister Madeleine King to stop the double-handling and relocation of radioactive waste to a highly contested regional facility proposed near Kimba in regional South Australia.

The Intermediate Level Waste should remain where it is securely stored at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation’s Lucas Heights facility, pending the outcome of an open review of future management options to identify a credible long-term solution. It’s time for us to advance responsible waste management that keeps communities and nature safe.”

A waste dump in Kimba would be bad news

Read the full details and sign up on the ACF website

Actions, Adelaide FoE Notes, Nuclear

Tell the Government they should Dump the dump!

roman September 5, 2022

Email Decision Makers to Dump the Dump

The Federal Labor Government has inherited an abusive relationship from the Morrison Government. One where the Morrison Government was trying to impose its toxic nuclear waste onto the fertile lands of the Barngarla Traditional Owners and local farming community, without their consent. When the Traditional Owners spoke up, the government tried to silence them.

Now the Labor Government is facing a legal challenge, which if they choose to fight it, would undermine the Uluru Statement of the Heart and call into question the government’s commitment to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People.

Instead, an inquiry should be initiated to advise on future options for radioactive waste management and to consider related matters such as the suitability of the National Radioactive Waste Management Act. The Act is viciously racist, and problematic in other ways, and needs to be repealed or heavily amended.

Urge the Labor decision makers to Dump the Dump and abandon the nuclear waste dump plans before this gets any more ugly.

Email Decision Makers here

Adelaide FoE Notes, Clean Futures, Nuclear

ICAN: UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

roman June 15, 2022

FIRST MEETING OF STATES PARTIES

The world is gathering in Vienna for the landmark first meeting of states parties to the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, the fourth Conference on the Humanitarian Impacts of Nuclear Weapons and the ICAN Civil Society Forum.

Experts and activists on the ground in Vienna will cross live to four Australian hubs over four nights to discuss, analyse and celebrate the nuclear ban events and the movement to eliminate nuclear weapons.

Join the hybrid events in person in Port Augusta, Fremantle, Brisbane and Melbourne, or tune in via zoom from anywhere around the world.

More details and registration at the ICAN website

SUNDAY 19 JUNE: PORT AUGUSTA

MONDAY 20 JUNE: FREMANTLE

WEDNESDAY 22 JUNE: MEANJIN / BRISBANE

FRIDAY 24 JUNE: NAARM / MELBOURNE

AND ONLINE, ALL FOUR NIGHTS

Nuclear, Old_Notes, Weapons proliferation

Zoom talks: Dave Sweeney on Nuclear issues, 6:30pm May 23rd

roman May 19, 2022

Note: Monday evening’s zoom talk will start half an hour later, at 6:30pm Adelaide time (7pm Melbourne)

Our guest this week is Dave Sweeney, Nuclear free campaigner for the ACF.

Dave will have a look at what’s happening nationally on nuclear issues.
After the initial talk/interview/presentation, we’ll open up for Q&A and further discussion.
Interstate Friends are welcome to join us…

Zoom details:
6:30 – 7:30pm Adelaide / 7- 8pm Melbourne
Monday, May 23rd

Meeting ID: 812 2415 1249
Passcode: friends
Join Zoom Meeting

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81224151249?pwd=M0ZjYWkrZ0JzejhTcXUxVUdIU3hjdz09

Nuclear, Old_Notes, Zoom talks