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Activists walk for recognition – Local News – News – General – Southern Highland News

Activists walk for recognition Southern Highland News 16/01/2009 A GROUP of activists is walking from Sydney to Canberra to call for indigenous sovereignty and an end of the Federal Government’s intervention into Northern Territory Aboriginal communities.

The walkers will arrive in Moss Vale today and continue their 17-day walk to Parliament House tomorrow, stopping at Penrose tomorrow night.

“Aboriginal Australia has been battling for over 200 years,” said Darren Bloomfield of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy established in Sydney to launch the walk…………….

“The Federal Government has been hacking away at Aboriginal Land Rights with the NT Intervention and now compulsory leases if Aboriginal communities want to receive basic services. The land grab has to stop.”

The walkers are also protesting proposals to dump nuclear waste in the Northern Territory.

Activists walk for recognition – Local News – News – General – Southern Highland News

January 17, 2009 Posted by | indigenous issues | Leave a comment

Areva bags licence to operate world’s second biggest uranium mine

Areva bags licence to operate world’s second biggest uranium mine
domain-b.com news 16 January 2009

After months of negotiation, the French nuclear energy group Areva has been granted a license to build and operate the Imouraren uranium mine in Niger, the biggest in Africa and the second biggest in the world.

The Imouraren deposit is the largest known uranium deposit in Africa, and the world’s second largest, after Australia’s Olympic Dam deposit…………………….Under the agreement, Areva will have a 66.65-per cent share in the newly created mining company, with the remaining 33.35 per cent being owned by the State of Niger.

domain-b.com : Areva bags licence to operate world’s second biggest uranium mine

January 17, 2009 Posted by | business and costs | Leave a comment

Ex-chiefs: scrap UK nuclear missile program

Ex-chiefs: scrap UK nuclear missile programBy DAVID STRINGER – 17 Jan 09 LONDON (AP) — Three retired senior military chiefs made an unlikely appeal Friday for Britain to scrap its 20 billion-pound ($30 billion) nuclear missile program, claiming it is unnecessary and no longer independent of the United States……………………”Nuclear weapons have shown themselves to be completely useless as a deterrent to the threats and scale of violence we currently face or are likely to face, particularly international terrorism,” the men wrote in their letter………………………….

The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament said that Bramall, Ramsbotham and Beach had brought into question the government’s entire justification for replacing the nuclear fleet.

“This statement debunks the myth that nuclear weapons are necessary for our security. These generals are no pacifists — they are purely practical about Britain’s needs and have concluded that we are better off without them,” the campaign’s director Kate Hudson said.

The Associated Press: Ex-chiefs: scrap UK nuclear missile program

January 17, 2009 Posted by | weapons and war | Leave a comment

Damage Apparently Kept Secret at German Nuclear Waste Site | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 16.01.2009

Damage Apparently Kept Secret at German Nuclear Waste Site Deutsche Welle 16 Jan 09

The heat has been turned up on Germany’s radiation protection office after it was revealed that an old salt mine in the German state of Lower Saxony, where nuclear waste is being stored, has sustained damaged.

The Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) had learned late last year that pieces of the ceiling of the 750-meter (2,500-foot) deep chamber were unstable and could collapse on top of the 6,000 radioactive waste drums below.

 

The information about the Asse nuclear waste site was posted discreetly on the radiation office’s Web site late Wednesday, Jan. 14.

Lower Saxony Environment Minister Hans-Heinrich Sander said he was only informed of the damage to the storage site Thursday, but the radiation office said the ministry had been informed all along.

 

The BfS said it could not rule out damage to the waste containers should the Asse site ceiling collapse,

Damage Apparently Kept Secret at German Nuclear Waste Site | Germany | Deutsche Welle | 16.01.2009

January 17, 2009 Posted by | secrets,lies and civil liberties | Leave a comment