The
Australian Conservation Foundation
In Australia the push is on for more uranium mines, a new
nuclear reactor and radioactive waste dumps. Despite enormous
community opposition to the nuclear industry in Australia,
Europe and the US, weapons stockpiles continue to grow, nuclear
waste dumps are overflowing, mines are still scarring the
landscape, and casualties of radioactivity are on the rise.
While ACF
welcomes the major rehabilitation works at Rio Tinto's
controversial Jabiluka uranium mine site, there is still much
to be done. ACF is calling for a ban on in situ leach mining
technology, the scrapping of plans to build a second Sydney
reactor, and legislation to end plans for imposed radioactive
waste dumps and to ensure that existing radioactive waste
is managed responsibly.www.acfonline.org.au
Greenpeace
Greenpeace has always fought - and will continue to fight
- vigorously against nuclear power because it is an unacceptable
risk to the environment and to humanity. The only solution
is to halt the expansion of all nuclear power, and for the
shutdown of existing plants.www.greenpeace.org
Friends
of the Earth Anti Uranium Collective
Friends of the Earth Anti Uranium Collective is actively campaigning
for a nuclear free future. In order to create an environmentally
sustainable and socially just world we need to end uranium
mining, stop dumping of radioactive wastes, prevent the proliferation
of nuclear weapons and ban the irradiation of food. www.melbourne.foe.org.au
Friends
of the Europe
Europe must stop wasting taxpayers' money to protect a dangerous
and expensive technology. 20 years after the Chernobyl disaster,
nuclear power, despite its widespread use also in Europe,
remains the most dirty and dangerous form of energy. www.foeeurope.org
Campaign For
Nuclear Disarmament CND ampaigns non-violently to rid the world of nuclear
weapons and other weapons of mass destruction and to create
genuine security for future generations. www.cnduk.org
All
that Glitters is Not Gold
PLEASE WATCH THIS VIDEO AND EDUCATE YOURSELF!
Uranium mining is set to expand in Australia. Olympic Dam,
the world’s largest known uranium deposit will increase
by three times, it will be the biggest uranium mine the world
has ever seen.and more uranium mines are threatening to open
up across the land. Uranium is radioactive and mining it unleashes
a potential for serious harm to us our children and our children’s
children. We need to take action now…Watch All that
Glitters is not Gold and forward to your friends and networks.
Even wikipedia covers this topic with alot
of simple information to help you understand it all a little
better Click
Here
Anti-Nuclear
Alliance of Western Australia
This website was produced by the Anti-Nuclear Alliance of
Western Australia. This group came into being in 1997 (then
known as the Anti-Uranium Coalition), to act as an umbrella
group for organisations campaigning against the nuclearisation
of Australia.
Our role is mainly in research, political lobbying and publication
of information that we believe the community needs in order
to make informed decisions about uranium mining, nuclear power,
weapons and waste.
This issue is bigger than us. Around the world, from Taiwan
to Germany to North America, people are well aware of the
dangers of nuclear technology and after fifty years, have
forced the industry into a decline from which it will probably
not recover. Here in Western Australia, our first-hand experience
is limited and we believe that people do not yet realise the
dangers that these new mining proposals pose to our country.
What has been shown over and over again is that strong community
opposition can stop uranium mines, power stations and waste
dumps if the action is determined, well informed and widespread.
Anit
Nuclear
Facts, News, Opinion - opposing nuclear power, very up to
date, active, current site.
Uranium Mining
and Aboriginal People -by Vincent Forrester
II follow the culture of my people. We belong to the land.
We are the caretakers for the land. Our lifetime on this earth
is only a blink in time, so our lifetime is spent protecting
and caring for this land for future generations.........
.....I want to tell you how I feel about uranium and how the
whole nuclear cycle affects our land, our lives, our traditions....
The people who I believe
to be among the worst affected by the nuclear cycle are my
people, the Aboriginal owners of Australia .It is our land
which white miners rip apart to extract the poisonous yellowcake,
and it is on our land where they dump the polluted tailings!
IIt is on Aboriginal
land that the British, with support from the Australian government
of the time, exploded deadly nuclear weapons, with no regard
for our people, their land or their future. And it is on Aboriginal
land that the government is examining the possibility of dumping
deadly radioactive waste in untried synthetic rock.
iI say to you, when you consider your attitudes to Australian
involvement in the uranium industry, that you think first
about what you are doing to our people..........
........what do Aboriginal people of Arnhem Land know of these
dangers? Our people in Arnhem Land and throughout Australia
are not sufficiently informed about the extent of damages
occurring from uranium mining. Nor do we know the extent to
which they are being exposed to radiation in the atmosphere.
Nor do we know the extent of contamination already present
in the food chain. There is simply no proper information given
to Aboriginal people living in the area about the effects
of uranium mining on the land. The monitoring scientists have
made no attempt to interpret their findings to the affected
Aboriginal people..........."
