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Thu, 2007-10-25 10:45 — Cyber Activist

by Dr. Alison Broinowski
(Published with permision from the Author for not-for-profit public awareness purposes)

"In late June and early July, just as the Howard Government was dispatching the army to Aboriginal communities to deal with sexual abuse, the U.S. military was involved for two weeks in northern Australia in the biggest ever joint exercise, Talisman Sabre.

Most Australians saw no connection.

Military training areas, uranium mines, sites for future nuclear waste dumps and now Aboriginal land seized by the Commonwealth are dots across the Australian map.

Several of them are connected by the Adelaide-Darwin railway. Having been many times promised, the $1.3 billion link from Alice Springs to Darwin was surprisingly found viable in 1999. By January, 2004, the train was running. The only tenderer, according to research at University of Technology Sydney, was the FreightLink consortium led by Halliburton (then headed by US vice-president Dick Cheney), with state, territory and federal contributions.

FreightLink owns the railway and can operate it for 50 years. It has contracted UK firm Serco, to staff and service the train.

Serco, which manages British nuclear power plants, gained a reputation in 2000 for sacking workers without AWAs at Australian naval bases in Jervis Bay.

Fast Breeder Nuclear Reactors... and their poison legacy

Mon, 2008-05-26 11:09 — Cyber Activist

Robots scour sea for atomic waste

Submarines search for radioactive material dumped off the Scottish coast in the 1980s
full story: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/may/25/pollution.conservation

snips…(bolding mine)

Although the UKAEA kept no precise accounts for building and running Dounreay, it is known to have cost several billion pounds.

“We built the first fast breeder reactor to generate electricity for a national grid”.
For 40 years, test reactors – part of Britain’s fast breeder reactor construction programme – operated there but the technology turned out to be messy. Fast breeders use liquid metal coolants and their contaminated remnants still await removal. “At the time, engineers were only interested in building reactors. No one thought how we might dismantle them,”

The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA), owners of Dounreay, was eventually fined 140,000 pounds at Wick Sheriff Court last year for ‘very grave errors’ that led to the beach’s contamination. The authority’s safety director, Dr John Crofts, admitted the release represented “an unacceptable legacy.”

Two kilometres of beach outside the Dounreay nuclear plant have been closed since 1983, and fishing banned, when it was found old fuel rod fragments were being accidentally pumped into the sea.

remember "the Greenhouse Mafia"?

Wed, 2007-10-31 18:01 — Cyber Activist

Article (1) 4 Corners - ABC

"Having found out what I’ve found out, I find it impossible to continue with a clear conscience without speaking out" - whistleblower interviewed by Four Corners.

Are Australians getting the whole truth on global warming?

Not according to evidence given to Four Corners, which returns with disturbing allegations about the power wielded by industry lobbyists, the self-proclaimed greenhouse "mafia".

Story: http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2006/s1566257.htm
Transcript: http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2006/s1566257.htm

Article (2) Green Left Online:
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/729/37802

Exposing the 'greenhouse mafia'

Zane Alcorn, Melbourne
26 October 2007

Guy Pearse — the speechwriter for the federal Coalition environment minister from 1997 to 2000 who blew the whistle last year on the Howard government’s use of Australia’s biggest polluters to write its greenhouse gas emissions policy — visited Melbourne on October 24 as part of an east-coast speaking tour.

Pearse introduced himself by saying that he was still a member of the Liberal Party. He said that from around 1990 until John Hewson’s failed “Fightback” election campaign in 1993, official Liberal policy was for a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2000.

He recalled how, while working for the Liberal Party, he “ignored pennies dropping” as he became aware of the systematic deception of the public on climate change by the Howard government’s public relations machine. This was when he decided to blow the whistle.

Pearse was interviewed by the ABC TV’s Four Corners program on “The Greenhouse Mafia”, aired in February 2006. After this, he said that the Liberals quietly turned their back on him.

read more @ Green Left Online:
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/729/37802

Is Howard being fair dinkum????

Sat, 2007-06-09 22:23 — Cyber Activist

Everything you need to know about the corruption of climate change policy in Australia:

Is Howard being fair dinkum?
Jill Singer
June 04, 2007

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21841497-5000117,00.html

JILL Singer writes: How seriously does John Howard take climate change? Consider who he chooses to listen to on this issue so vital to our future.
Until last year, the man John Howard appointed to advise him on science policy was Dr Robert Batterham.
How confident can Australians be that he provided independent advice?

At the same time that Dr Batterham was working as the PM's chief scientist, he was earning an estimated $700,000 a year as a director of Rio Tinto, a company with a huge vested interest in Australia's carbon policy.

Taxpayers also fund the Commonwealth Government's Australian Greenhouse Office.
Gwen Andrews was its chief executive for four years, including the period John Howard was meant to be deliberating whether to ratify Kyoto. According to Andrews, he did not ask her for a single briefing.

Dr Graeme Pearman was for many years the head of the CSIRO's Division of Atmospheric Research and reveals that CSIRO scientists were gagged under pressure from the Government.
They were not allowed to talk about the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

howard and nuclear

Sat, 2007-04-28 23:07 — Cyber Activist

From: John Hallam FOE-Aust

HOWARD LIVING IN NUCLEAR FAIRYLAND

Mr Howard's announcement that Australia must 'consider' nuclear
power as a solution to the climate change issue shows that he either
does not know or does not care about the arguments that have been
raised against nuclear power for decades. They display a degree of
ignorance - or worse, ideological bias - that ill-fits a prime
minister, who clearly does not understand the realities of nuclear
power. He is living in a nuclear fairyland.

According to Friends of the Earth,

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