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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.

by GLParramatta

The Climate Change Coalition is a new political party. Green Left Weekly’s Zane Alcorn spoke to CCC candidate Dr Karl Kruszelnicki, who is running for the Senate in New South Wales.
Read the full interview at:
http://www.greenleft.org.au/2007/732/37956

Reply - Via our Climate Change Action Group
By Greg Hopwood

RE Dr Karl Kruszelnicki from GLW link -
"I see geosequestration as a useful short-term thing. In 10 years we will probably still be burning coal so the question is whether we catch the emissions or just release them. But you can't keep doing that forever."

Both so called 'clean coal technology' [sic] and geosequestration aka 'carbon capture & storage' are fallacies.
Both are prohibitively expensive and neither actually achieves the desired results.
Both fables are just coal industry filibuster trying to avoid the inevitable.

Considering CCC has preferenced Pauline Hanson and Family First

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

To me, the dots are clearly joined in the real "war on terror".
... the removal of Howard, Bush, and Blaire from total power and control of our planet and her people.

Look at the "war games" (Operation Talisman Saber 2007) as a perfect example.
http://shoalwaterbay.org and/or http://peaceconvergence.com

The US Governments' Military needs "sites" to continue in its global aims for domination via militarisation and continued promotion of privatisation and the unabated consumption of our planet's precious natural resources (which are, of course - finite).