Bill GreenMORE EVIDENCE AUSTRALIA HAS BEEN CHOSEN TO TAKE THE PLANET'S NUCLEAR WASTE
August 19th 2009 04:40
Why do we imagine that we are better at nuclear waste (Hawke in plug for N-waste, Aug 19) than the Americans?
In 2004 I wrote (The Devil’s Trap – Amazon, 2006) that we would become the nuclear waste dump for the planet. I was ridiculed by local publishers who imagined that Australians wouldn’t tolerate such circumstances. My book outlines the scheme whereby Australia decides that the nuclear waste industry would be more profitable for the country than agriculture.
In 2005 Bob Hawke mooted, along with present cabinet minister, Martin Ferguson, that Australia should be a nuclear dump.
In that year ABC rural radio reported that our waterways were being monitored for flow and mineral content by a private American company. A check on the Washington state nuclear dumps revealed (Washington State website) that they were all leaking into theColumbia River. In 2006 John Howard had a secret briefing with the Bush administration on nuclear waste. Earlier this year the finance for new nuclear dumps was cut from the American budget. In response to requests under freedom of information the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet refused to search for documents about the nuclear talks. It seems to be adding up to me.
The talks with John Howard were held the day before The Devil’s Trap was launched in July 2006 at the Williamstown Literary Festival.
Several weeks ago Catalyst (ABC-TV) revealed that granite found at Lake Boga in the north of Victoria is the only granite on the planet that will cope with holding nuclear waste for hundreds of thousands of years. Really? My speculation in The Devil’s Trap is that Lake Boga will be the location of the dump. I’m sceptical about the claim that Lake Boga has the only substance that can contain nuclear waste.
The problem is that the longest lasting structures on the planet are the pyramids and they’re not much over ten thousand years old. No one knew what they were built for until several centuries ago when they were examined by British archaeologists. What will be made of our dumps three hundred thousand years from now? Will the countries who dumped it in Australia still be paying for the
maintenance? Will the countries still exist?
In 2004 I wrote (The Devil’s Trap – Amazon, 2006) that we would become the nuclear waste dump for the planet. I was ridiculed by local publishers who imagined that Australians wouldn’t tolerate such circumstances. My book outlines the scheme whereby Australia decides that the nuclear waste industry would be more profitable for the country than agriculture.
In 2005 Bob Hawke mooted, along with present cabinet minister, Martin Ferguson, that Australia should be a nuclear dump.
In that year ABC rural radio reported that our waterways were being monitored for flow and mineral content by a private American company. A check on the Washington state nuclear dumps revealed (Washington State website) that they were all leaking into theColumbia River. In 2006 John Howard had a secret briefing with the Bush administration on nuclear waste. Earlier this year the finance for new nuclear dumps was cut from the American budget. In response to requests under freedom of information the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet refused to search for documents about the nuclear talks. It seems to be adding up to me.
The talks with John Howard were held the day before The Devil’s Trap was launched in July 2006 at the Williamstown Literary Festival.
Several weeks ago Catalyst (ABC-TV) revealed that granite found at Lake Boga in the north of Victoria is the only granite on the planet that will cope with holding nuclear waste for hundreds of thousands of years. Really? My speculation in The Devil’s Trap is that Lake Boga will be the location of the dump. I’m sceptical about the claim that Lake Boga has the only substance that can contain nuclear waste.
The problem is that the longest lasting structures on the planet are the pyramids and they’re not much over ten thousand years old. No one knew what they were built for until several centuries ago when they were examined by British archaeologists. What will be made of our dumps three hundred thousand years from now? Will the countries who dumped it in Australia still be paying for the
maintenance? Will the countries still exist?
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