04 June 2007
Peter Garrett MP
Member for Kingsford Smith
Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Environment and Heritage
The Howard Government has revealed its plan to transform Australia into the world’s nuclear waste dumping ground.
Every single delegate at yesterday’s Liberal Party Federal Council meeting called on Australia to embrace “nuclear power generation and worldwide nuclear waste storage in the geotechnically stable and remote areas that Australia has to offer.”
This is the Prime Minister’s vision for Australia’s future – 25 nuclear reactors dotted around Australia, and dozens of nuclear waste dumps, filled with toxic radioactive waste.
And every one of those 25 nuclear reactor plants will be a nuclear waste dump.
Federal Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane yesterday admitted that every nuclear reactor will store nuclear waste for “the first 30, maybe 40 years” of its operation.
The Howard Government will now begin the search for “geotechnically stable and remote areas” of South Australia, Western Australia and the Northern Territory suitable for a global nuclear waste dump.
Mr Howard must come clean and tell Australians where he will locate his reactors, his nuclear waste dumps and his global nuclear waste facility.
Already more than one in four of John Howard’s MPs (23 of 87) oppose the construction of a nuclear reactor in their electorate. (see attached)
The Howard Government can’t have it both ways. If its MPs commit to a nuclear future, they must commit to building nuclear reactors and waste dumps in their own electorates – whatever their margin.
For more information: contact Kate Pasterfield 0439 852 118
23 COALITION MP’s DON’T SHARE HOWARD’S NUCLEAR DREAM
Already more than one in four of John Howard’s MPs (23 of 87) oppose the construction of a Nuclear Reactor Plant in their electorate.
The 23 MPs are:
- Member for Bowman - Andrew Laming
- Member for Braddon - Mark “Not in my lifetime” Barker
- Member for Curtin - Julie “Might be a little bit difficult” Bishop
- Member for Fadden - David “Unadulterated garbage” Jull
- Member for Fairfax - Alexander Somlyay
- Member for Fisher - Peter “Strongly opposed” Slipper
- Member for Flinders - Greg Hunt
- Member for Gilmore - Joanna Gash
- Member for Gippsland - Peter McGauran
- Member for Grey - Barry Wakelin
- Member for Herbert - Peter Lindsay
- Member for Hume - Alby “Won’t be in Hume mate” Schultz
- Member for Kingston - Kym “More appropriate places” Richardson
- Member for Leichhardt - Warren “Port Douglas” Entsch
- Member for Longman - Mal Brough
- Member for Maranoa - Bruce “No” Scott
- Member for McMillan - Russell “Over My Dead Body” Broadbent
- Member for Menzies - Kevin “Not much room” Andrews
- Member for Moncrieff - Steven Ciobo
- Member for Moreton - Gary “Not suitable” Hardgrave
- Member for North Sydney - Joe Hockey
- Member for Petrie - Teresa Gambaro
- Member for Wentworth - Malcolm Turnbull