Bill GreenRudd's government is preparing to take the planet's nuclear waste
May 24th 2008 01:36
How do we know when a new government is going to follow a certain line? It places those in power who have been pushing the line when the government was in opposition. How do I know this? I was press secretary to a dpm and recognise such machinations immediately.
Who is in charge of nuclear matters in Rudd's government? Martin Ferguson, who began a push with with former pm Bob Hawke, for Australia to take the planet's nuclear waste. A little later, Howard signed a deal with president Bush on taking the waste from the US, and there hasn't been a peep from the Rudd's Government in reversing that decision.
The agreement has outlined the concept of Australia taking the planet's nuclear waste in vague, fudging terms, but as Richard Baker of The Age has written, measures were undertaken that are not fully fleshed out. Such a technique takes the heat off governments.
Why did Hawke and Ferguson fall for such a business project when they have to know that Australia will have to look after the waste for 500,000 thousand years, or longer? That estimation came from a mathematical model so it could easily be forever. Rocks still have radiation (mild) contained in them from the beginning of the planet's creation.
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