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Adelaide FoE Notes
ACF open letter to the Resources Minister on nuclear waste
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
Tell the Albanese government: it’s time for a national Energy Transition Authority!
Australia has traditionally relied on coal fired power stations to meet its energy needs. This is now rapidly changing, as renewable energy and storage becomes cheaper and older coal fired power stations become ever more expensive to run and less reliable.
Friends of the Earth has long argued for the need for a national Just Transition Authority
Now, the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has issued a call for the Albanese government to establish an independent and properly resourced national Energy Transition Authority to manage an orderly and fair transition process for affected workers – including support for redeployment, skills and training, and secure job opportunities.
Friends of the Earth supports this call and encourages our members and supporters to sign the letter below, which will go to the prime minister Anthony Albanese.
You can find details on the ACTU proposal in their Secure Jobs for a Safer Climate report.
Tell the Albanese government: it’s time for a national Energy Transition Authority!
Send a letter
Tell the Government they should Dump the dump!
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
Smart Energy Summit 2020 worth watching
Global Smart Energy Summit 2020 Event Summary
On Tuesday 29 and Wednesday 30 September 2020 the Smart Energy Council and partners the Lord Mayor’s Charitable Foundation and Zoom delivered an amazing lineup of international and local industry and political leaders in exploring ways to tackle the economic and climate crises simultaneously.
some of the stand out speeches from both days include:
- The Hon Malcolm Turnbull and Mark Carney discuss Australia in a global context, facilitated by Pilita Clark
- Dan Ilic talks climate with Osher Günsberg and Mike Cannon-Brookes
- Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama gives a Pacific perspective
- Audrey Zibelman on the new Integrated System Plan, rebuilding the system with a very different technology in a planned way
- Bill McKibben reflects on the year of “I can’t breathe”
- Professor Jeffrey Sachs highlights the urgent need for significant climate action
More details at https://www.smartenergy.org.au/global-smart-energy-summit-2020-event-summary