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LATEST CAMPAIGN: Nuclear Freeways Project

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The Yellow Cake Road Collective envision a nuclear free future in Australia and aim to prevent the movement of nuclear waste throughout the country.

With the ALP continuing to impose a radioactive waste facility on Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory, there is strong opposition from over 50 traditional owners of the site.

Increasing economic disadvantage in remote areas means many Aboriginal communities are feeling pressure to accept nuclear projects on their country as a source of jobs and income- sometimes in exchange for essential infrastructure like roads and housing. Despite this pressure, communities continue to resist the expansion of the nuclear industry in Australia.

The Yellow Cake Road collective support these aboriginal communities and plan to work closely with them to raise awareness of the injustice of the imposed national waste dump on their land.  The Nuclear Freeways project will involve generating awareness and promoting action through highlighting the risks of the transportation of nuclear waste from the Lucas Heights nuclear reactor to the NT to communities along the potential transport routes.

To launch the project, there will be a public meeting in Sydney and Wollongong with guest speakers including Muckaty traditional owners; Dianne Stokes, Mark Lane, Mark Chungaloo and Gladys Brown. All welcome!

Nuclear Freeways Project Launch

• Tuesday 27th July 2010

             1-7 Belmore St, Surry Hills 

• Wednesday 28th July 2010

             22 Kenny St, Wollongong

Donations:

We estimate that organising the forums in Sydney and Wollongong, producing resources and the transport and logistical costs of travelling from Sydney to the Northern Territory could be up to $20,000. The major cost will be transport for Traditional Owners to Sydney and back, as well as to the upcoming Australian Nuclear Free Alliance meeting in Alice Springs. 

We need your political and financial support to stop the waste dump and enable traditional owners to lead this campaign!

Donate: All donations big or small would be greatly appreciated at: 

http://foe.org.au/donate/product_info.php?products_id=77

THANK YOU!

Other campaigns:

As people around the world demand action on climate change, governments continue to use the climate crisis to push forward regressive and corporate driven policies.

There is an aggressive global push to rebrand nuclear power as a ‘green, clean’ solution to climate change, with claims a ‘nuclear renaissance’ is ahead.

Nuclear Power is No Solution to Climate Change: too dirty, too dangerous.

Carbon emissions calculation must take into account the entire life cycle of uranium; mining, processing, transportation, construction and de-commissioning of reactors and radioactive waste disposal and management.

In Australia, building a nuclear reactor to supply the capital cities in all six states would reduce national emissions by just 4% - nuclear is no solution to climate change.

Further, there is still no method for storage or disposal of high level radioactive waste that can guarantee to isolate it from the environment, workers and communities for the hundreds of thousand of years it remains dangerous.

And despite ‘safeguards’ on uranium exports, as Minister Anthony Albanese has said, “you can guarantee that uranium mining will lead to nuclear waste, but you can’t guarantee it won’t lead to nuclear weapons”.

Australia’s Role: Beginning and Ending the Global Nuclear Fuel Chain

Since the ALP dropped its ‘no new uranium mines’ policy in April 2007, there has been a plethora of uranium exploration applications across the NT, SA and WA. Olympic Dam Uranium Mine in SA, is proposed to expand four – fold to become the biggest uranium mine in the world.

At APEC in 2007, the Australian government became a signatory to the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP), further entrenching its role in the global nuclear fuel chain. Australia has 38% of the world’s known uranium deposits and Resources Minister Martin Ferguson has expressed a wish for
Australia to become “the largest miner and exporter of uranium in the world”.

Remaining a signatory of GNEP will increase pressure for Australia to take back high-level radioactive waste produced in overseas reactors in a ‘leasing’ style arrangement.

Get Active!

2010 is crunch time with the proposed NT Nuclear Waste Dump, numerous new uranium mines to be approved in the NT and SA, and huge expansions of Roxby Downs and Ranger uranium mines. Now is a great time to get active for a nuclear free future.

In 2010, we plan to continue working with local and Northern Territory Traditional Owners; link with other campaigns - particularly climate justice and Stop the NT Intervention; and begin to raise pressure at the Maroubra Electorate Office of Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett; and organise strong demonstrations for the Australian Labor Party National Conference in Sydney in July. We need you to to be a part of raising a nuclear-free voice in Sydney!