
They have let it come: now build it
An Eyre Peninsula community’s decision to host a national nuclear waste repository should be respected, argues Sean Edwards.
An Eyre Peninsula community’s decision to host a national nuclear waste repository should be respected, argues Sean Edwards.
Legislation to set up a national nuclear waste storage site on South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula is being debated by federal parliament. Margaret Beavis argues that both the site selection process and storage plans for long-lived intermediate nuclear waste are unacceptable.
Get InDaily in your inbox. Daily. The best local news sent straight to your inbox every workday at lunchtime.
Thanks for signing up to the InDaily newsletter.
The federal government’s decision to place a a nuclear waste storage site at Kimba on SA’s Eyre Peninsula turned deaf ears to the opposition of the area’s native title holders, argues Jim Green and Michele Madigan.
The question of safe transport of waste is one of four key issues to emerge from the first public examination of the proposal to build a nuclear waste dump in South Australia.
One of the traditional owners of the Flinders Ranges land earmarked for a low level nuclear waste dump, Regina McKenzie, writes about the significance of the site and why Premier Jay Weatherill should intervene.
South Australia must seize the opportunity to make billions of dollars storing nuclear waste before another state “grabs” it from us.