Charles,
It's statements like these which make one a bit nervous -
"The Government's policy is clear, absolute and won't change, we
are not accepting any overseas waste and we're not accepting any
high-level waste."
Don't mention the Manly sewerage tunnel. Ian Kiernan is in todays
paper getting stuck into Sydney Water for not paying any attention to the
recommendations of the advisory board set up by SW of which he was a member.
It's gone $70milion over budget AND they have cut $100 million of
environmental infrastructure - so that sounds like 170 million over budget
to me.
I think it's time to relax - accept the fact that we live in Sydney,
are run by catholics/business/politicians, and really have no chance unless
we become one or all of them. So I'm getting circumsised, starting a
construction company called BridgeHead, and a political party which will
solve all of the northern peninsulas problems - a big fucking bridge across
the heads.
What are you like at pouring concrete. I'm a bit concerned at the
new ato ruling that you can't claim bribes as a tax deduction anymore but I
think the financials will still work.
Both Belle and Jen are well.
See you,
Alex
> -Original Message-
> From: Trudy Bray [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 7 July 1999 15:28
> To: news-clip
> Subject: AAP: Nuclear dump won't house overseas waste: Minchin
>
> Is that a 'core' promise? Is this denial anything like the
> 'guidelines' that keep changing? Or the 'never, ever' GST?
> --- Trudy
> ===
>
> Nuclear dump won't house overseas waste:
> Minchin
> From AAP
>
> 7jul99
>
> 2.45pm (AEST) A NATIONAL low-level nuclear waste dump to be
> built in South Australia within two years would not open the door
> to high-level or overseas nuclear waste, the Federal Government
> said today.
>
> Federal Industry, Science and Resources Minister Nick Minchin said
> reports that United States resources company Pangea was setting
> up an office in Perth was a waste of the company's time and
> money.
>
> Senator Minchin said a national radioactive waste repository was
> expected to be built next year and be operational by 2001, but he
> said the Government's policy was clear that it would not accept
> overseas or high-level nuclear waste.
>
> "This site is for low and short-lived intermediate-level radioactive
> waste. It is all Australian - genuine, dinky-di Australian waste - and
> the repository itself will be about the size of a football field,"
> Senator Minchin said.
>
> Drilling has been completed at six sites in the Woomera-Roxby
> Downs area of South Australia's north with up to 12 more
> investigation sites to be identified.
>
> A preferred site for the repository is expected to be selected late
> this year and once identified, that site will be subject to an
> environmental impact assessment.
>
> Waste to be disposed of at the site has about a 30-year half life
> and is currently stored at about 50 sites around Australia, including
> hospitals and universities.
>
> It will include medical, scientific and industrial items such as lightly
> contaminated soil, paper, laboratory glassware, clothing, industrial
> smoke detectors, compasses and instrument dials.
>
> Senator Minchin said the Government was keeping open the
> possibility that a storage facility for long-lived intermediate-level
> waste could be co-located with the repository but a decision would
> be reserved until a site had been chosen.
>
> "There will be no high-level waste in this repository and, in fact,
> there will be no high-level waste at all," he said.
>
> "The Government's policy is clear, absolute and won't change, we
> are not accepting any overseas waste and we're not accepting any
> high-level waste."
>
> His comments followed reports Pangea had moved its Australian
> headquarters to Perth.
>
> A project brief by Pangea, revealed earlier this year, said the
> company had identified the largest area of stable geology on the
> planet suitable for disposal of nuclear waste as being within
> Western and South Australia.
>
> "The only contact I've had was to write to Pangea to make it clear
> ... the Government's policy that we would not allow the
> establishment of the sort of repository they had in mind," Senator
> Minchin said.
>
> "They can waste their time, energy and money advocating this
> cause but they will not change this Government's attitude."
>
> Senator Minchin said South Australians would be silly to oppose the
> repository if that was the best site.
>
> "All we're talking about is low-level things like soil and clothing and
> gauges and things like that, stored, buried 20m under the ground
> in a thing that's the size of a football field and in an area which is
> vast and very lig
