Nuclear

“Black Mist White Rain” – nuclear weapons speaking tour

“Black Mist White Rain” Speaking Tour in Adelaide on the ongoing impact of nuclear testing and the growing global movement to ban nuclear weapons

Speakers: Sue Coleman-Haseldine (Kokatha-Mula), Karina Lester (Yankunytjatjara-Anangu), Rosemary Lester (Yankunytjatjara-Anangu) and Abacca Anjain-Maddison (Republic of the Marshall Islands)

For more information: www.icanw.org/au/

RSVP to the Conservation Council here

Facebook event link

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Stalls at Port Adelaide “Hart’s Mill” market in March and April

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

Nuclear Free SA coalition meeting 6pm Thurs 24 March

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

National nuclear waste dump submissions

Now the six nominated sites for a potential national nuclear waste dump have been announced, the federal government is calling for comments. FOE Adelaide will make a submission in support of the Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal communities who do not want the dump.

Submissions must be received by 11 March 2016 at:

The Department of Industry, Innovation and Science
National Radioactive Waste Section
GPO Box 9839
Canberra ACT 2601
radioactivewaste@industry.gov.au

The shortlisted locations are at http://minister.industry.gov.au/ministers/frydenberg/media-releases/six-voluntary-sites-shortlisted-national-radioactive-waste

Sally’s Flat – New South Wales

Hale – Northern Territory

Cortlinye – South Australia (near Kimba on the Eyre Peninsula)

Pinkawillinie – South Australia (near Kimba on the Eyre Peninsula)

Barndioota – South Australia (near Hawker in the Flinders Ranges.

Oman Ama – Queensland