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The federal government says it has acquired more than 200 hectares of land near Kimba on the Eyre Peninsula to build a nuclear waste storage facility while confirming the site’s go-ahead overnight, but opponents are threatening to seek a judicial review of the decision.
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Kimba, on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula, is firming as the site for a national nuclear waste dump after the federal government today ruled an area near the Flinders Ranges town of Hawker.
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Labor’s about-face on nuclear waste is complete, with the State Government backing the Greens’ push to reinstate laws banning public money being spent on advancing the nuclear debate in South Australia.
Business SA has vowed to continue the nuclear waste dump fight after the next election, with boss Nigel McBride slamming the state’s politicians for killing off the debate because of populist politics.
A parliamentary inquiry into Jay Weatherill’s doomed nuclear waste repository has told the State Government not to spend another cent of public money on the plan, with MPs from both major parties conspiring to drive the last nail into the project’s political coffin.
Premier Jay Weatherill has officially walked away from one of the major policy hallmarks of his term in Government, pronouncing the nuclear waste dump “dead” and vowing he will not revisit it if he wins another term in office.
