It makes more sense to create systems where-in we are able to capture emmissions from coal/gas including C02, mercury, radon etc... than to build more nuclear plants and pollute the world with more radiation.
Absolutely, nobody wants to deal with the unmangable, catastrophic problems associated with nuclear waste storage. England even dumped it in the Ocean for a while, until they got caught. Since there is no safe storage of nuclear waste, many countries have decided to use it to make weapons, armour plating for tanks, agriculture fertilizer (hot storage water).
The Western Australian government aims to keep its committment to the people and maintain their ban on uranium mining. I wish our Canadian government would ban it also; but, then the Queen wouldn't be able to make money from the sales of the uranium holdings she owns in Canada. Him, him.
Absolutely, nobody wants to deal with the unmangable, catastrophic problems associated with nuclear waste storage. England even dumped it in the Ocean for a while, until they got caught. Since there is no safe storage of nuclear waste, many countries have decided to use it to make weapons, armour plating for tanks, agriculture fertilizer (hot storage water).
The Western Australian government aims to keep its committment to the people and maintain their ban on uranium mining. I wish our Canadian government would ban it also; but, then the Queen wouldn't be able to make money from the sales of the uranium holdings she owns in Canada. Him, him.
WA rejects calls to end uranium mining ban.
January 8, 2007
The Western Australia Government has rejected a federal call to end its ban on uranium mining as a way of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
Federal Environment Minister Ian Campbell said today that WA should reassess its ban because nuclear power could be used in the fight against climate change.
Senator Campbell said there were also huge benefits for the WA and Australian economies from mining uranium as the world was hungry for it.
But acting WA Premier Eric Ripper rejected the call to dump the ban, one of Labor's central policies in the 2005 state election, calling Senator Campbell "a nuclear fanatic".
"I mean, the answer to greenhouse gas emissions is to look at clean coal technology, to promote renewables, solar, wind, wave, biomass, to invest in energy efficiency," Mr Ripper said on ABC radio.
"And, of course, Western Australia is contributing substantially to one of the other answers, which is to export LNG so that it replaces coal, for example, in Chinese power stations."
Mr Ripper said if WA lifted the ban it would come under intense pressure to accept an international waste dump.
"And that's something I know our electorate would be strongly opposed to," he said.
"We went to the people at the last election saying we're opposed to nuclear power, we're opposed to uranium mining and we're opposed to a waste dump in Western Australia, that's the contract we have with the people and we intend to honour that commitment."