We Say No! Don't Dump on SA
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The Federal government wants to build a nuclear waste ‘facility’ in SA. Some of this nuclear waste is a hazard for hundreds of years and some for over ten thousand years.
We Still Say NO to a nuclear waste dump in our state.
Please join us on Kaurna Land at the Don't Dump on SA Rally on Saturday 3rd November 2018 at 11.30am, Parliament House, North Terrace, Adelaide.
Please donate to help us raise funds to enable people from the affected communities to attend the rally.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Come to the Rally! Facebook event here
The Barngarla Injunction hearing will go back to court on 30 January 2019. Here is a link to a statement from DIIS (the Department of Industry Innovation and Science). Here is a link to an article in The Advertiser saying that the Minister's decision may be delayed until next year.
With the ballot on hold, this rally is more important than ever. We need to come together and say NO to a radioactive waste dump in SA and ensure that the government ends this terrible site selection process.
We want the government to take all three sites in SA off the table and to hold an full independent inquiry into the best way to manage our most dangerous waste. They must stop targeting remote and regional areas and give Aboriginal people a right of veto for proposals that threaten their country and culture.
We want a huge presence at the rally to show Minister Canavan that he does NOT have broad community support for a waste dump in SA and that he can't impose one on this unwilling community.
Please join us to show We Still Say No to Radioactive Waste in SA!
Sign the petition
Please send a submission to the Department of Innovation, Industry and Science (DIIS). Details and some useful information to include can be found here. You can write your own submission, or use the quick and easy online submission system here .
Donate to provide vital funds to the campaign via this page.
Phone or write to your local MP. Find their contact details here
For more information check out www.conservationsa.org.au/nuclear.
THIS IS NOT JUST A LOW LEVEL WASTE DUMP
The proposed dump would store intermediate level nuclear waste, not dispose of it. The long-lived intermediate-level waste would be stored above ground as an ‘interim’ measure until being moved again for deep underground disposal. The federal government has no plans for permanent disposal of the long-lived intermediate-level waste, so ‘interim’ above-ground storage in SA could stretch to 100 years or more.
The long-lived intermediate waste is the highest level radioactive waste in Australia and in some international jurisdictions, including France, is classified as high level radioactive waste. This waste includes reprocessed nuclear fuel rods and is a serious threat for thousands of years. Measured by radioactivity the long lived waste is more than 90% of the nuclear waste in Australia
Low-level waste would be permanently disposed of at the dump site. The majority of the low level waste is contaminated soil.
COMMUNITY CONCERN IN THE FLINDERS RANGES AND KIMBA
Many locals don’t want industries such as tourism and farming threatened. Many Traditional Owners do not want cultural heritage sites and their spiritual connection to country put at risk. South Australians do not want their state turned into a nuclear dump. The issue continues to cause deep division and stress in the affected communities.
WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN TO THE WASTE?
The majority of this waste is currently securely stored at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation’s (ANSTO) site at Lucas Heights, in southern Sydney. ANSTO says it “is capable of handling and storing waste for long periods of time.” ANSTO produced the waste and they are best placed to manage it until proper disposal is agreed. The current plan is substandard. There is no rush.
The waste can and should remain secured and monitored at Lucas Heights until a dedicated public review of the full range of options for waste management is carried out. The focus needs to shift from targeting SA to establishing a fair, open and responsible process.
DON’T WE NEED IT FOR NUCLEAR MEDICINE?
No. The simple fact is that we do not need a nuclear dump to continue to have access to nuclear medicine in Australia. The absence of a national dump hasn’t harmed nuclear medicine and the establishment of a national dump won’t help nuclear medicine. No Australian will miss out on access to nuclear medicine if the waste continues to be managed at Lucas Heights.
www.mapw.org.au/nuclear-chain/nuclear-waste.
NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPS ARE ILLEGAL IN SA.
In response to earlier federal moves to dump radioactive waste in SA our Parliament passed the Nuclear Waste Facility (Prohibition) Act 2000. The objects of this Act are “to protect the health, safety and welfare of the people of South Australia and to protect the environment in which they live by prohibiting the establishment of certain nuclear waste storage facilities in this state.” This law is sensible and powerful and we want all our state politicians to use it to stop the federal government imposing a nuclear waste dump on SA.
WE HAVE SAID NO BEFORE AND WE STILL SAY NO
South Australians said no the last time (1998-2004) the federal government wanted to build a nuclear waste dump and more recently we said no to the plan to import high-level international nuclear waste.
Together we can build a better, greener future from safer things than nuclear waste!
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Sign the petition: www.nodumpalliance.org.au/sign_the_petition_no_dump
Check out the website: www.dontdumponsa.net
Donate to provide vital funds to the campaign
Phone or write to your local MP. Find their contact details here
We Still Say NO to a nuclear waste dump in our state.
Please join us on Kaurna Land at the Don't Dump on SA Rally on Saturday 3rd November 2018 at 11.30am, Parliament House, North Terrace, Adelaide.
Please donate to help us raise funds to enable people from the affected communities to attend the rally.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Come to the Rally! Facebook event here
The Barngarla Injunction hearing will go back to court on 30 January 2019. Here is a link to a statement from DIIS (the Department of Industry Innovation and Science). Here is a link to an article in The Advertiser saying that the Minister's decision may be delayed until next year.
With the ballot on hold, this rally is more important than ever. We need to come together and say NO to a radioactive waste dump in SA and ensure that the government ends this terrible site selection process.
We want the government to take all three sites in SA off the table and to hold an full independent inquiry into the best way to manage our most dangerous waste. They must stop targeting remote and regional areas and give Aboriginal people a right of veto for proposals that threaten their country and culture.
We want a huge presence at the rally to show Minister Canavan that he does NOT have broad community support for a waste dump in SA and that he can't impose one on this unwilling community.
Please join us to show We Still Say No to Radioactive Waste in SA!
Sign the petition
Please send a submission to the Department of Innovation, Industry and Science (DIIS). Details and some useful information to include can be found here. You can write your own submission, or use the quick and easy online submission system here .
Donate to provide vital funds to the campaign via this page.
Phone or write to your local MP. Find their contact details here
For more information check out www.conservationsa.org.au/nuclear.
THIS IS NOT JUST A LOW LEVEL WASTE DUMP
The proposed dump would store intermediate level nuclear waste, not dispose of it. The long-lived intermediate-level waste would be stored above ground as an ‘interim’ measure until being moved again for deep underground disposal. The federal government has no plans for permanent disposal of the long-lived intermediate-level waste, so ‘interim’ above-ground storage in SA could stretch to 100 years or more.
The long-lived intermediate waste is the highest level radioactive waste in Australia and in some international jurisdictions, including France, is classified as high level radioactive waste. This waste includes reprocessed nuclear fuel rods and is a serious threat for thousands of years. Measured by radioactivity the long lived waste is more than 90% of the nuclear waste in Australia
Low-level waste would be permanently disposed of at the dump site. The majority of the low level waste is contaminated soil.
COMMUNITY CONCERN IN THE FLINDERS RANGES AND KIMBA
Many locals don’t want industries such as tourism and farming threatened. Many Traditional Owners do not want cultural heritage sites and their spiritual connection to country put at risk. South Australians do not want their state turned into a nuclear dump. The issue continues to cause deep division and stress in the affected communities.
WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN TO THE WASTE?
The majority of this waste is currently securely stored at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation’s (ANSTO) site at Lucas Heights, in southern Sydney. ANSTO says it “is capable of handling and storing waste for long periods of time.” ANSTO produced the waste and they are best placed to manage it until proper disposal is agreed. The current plan is substandard. There is no rush.
The waste can and should remain secured and monitored at Lucas Heights until a dedicated public review of the full range of options for waste management is carried out. The focus needs to shift from targeting SA to establishing a fair, open and responsible process.
DON’T WE NEED IT FOR NUCLEAR MEDICINE?
No. The simple fact is that we do not need a nuclear dump to continue to have access to nuclear medicine in Australia. The absence of a national dump hasn’t harmed nuclear medicine and the establishment of a national dump won’t help nuclear medicine. No Australian will miss out on access to nuclear medicine if the waste continues to be managed at Lucas Heights.
www.mapw.org.au/nuclear-chain/nuclear-waste.
NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPS ARE ILLEGAL IN SA.
In response to earlier federal moves to dump radioactive waste in SA our Parliament passed the Nuclear Waste Facility (Prohibition) Act 2000. The objects of this Act are “to protect the health, safety and welfare of the people of South Australia and to protect the environment in which they live by prohibiting the establishment of certain nuclear waste storage facilities in this state.” This law is sensible and powerful and we want all our state politicians to use it to stop the federal government imposing a nuclear waste dump on SA.
WE HAVE SAID NO BEFORE AND WE STILL SAY NO
South Australians said no the last time (1998-2004) the federal government wanted to build a nuclear waste dump and more recently we said no to the plan to import high-level international nuclear waste.
Together we can build a better, greener future from safer things than nuclear waste!
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Sign the petition: www.nodumpalliance.org.au/sign_the_petition_no_dump
Check out the website: www.dontdumponsa.net
Donate to provide vital funds to the campaign
Phone or write to your local MP. Find their contact details here
Organizer
Mara Bonacci
Organizer
Adelaide, SA