[Greens-Media] Media alert for Monday 25th June - Nuclear waste dump

[Nic Clyde]

MEDIA ALERT

Sydney leg of nuclear waste dump tour

Traditional Owners and community members talk about global plan for
dumping nuke waste on their land


WHO: 	Audrey McCormack, Mt Everard
     	Mitch, Harts Range
    	Vina Hornsby, Fisher’s Ridge
     	Dianne Stokes, Muckaty
                Margie Lynch, Arrernte Nations Campaign:
                Ian Cohen, NSW Greens Upper House member

WHEN: 	10.30am, Monday, 25 June 2007
		
WHERE: 	NSW Parliament House Interview Room, Lvl 6, NSW
Parliament House, Sydney



Traditional Owners from the Northern Territory speak out about plans to
dump waste from Australia and overseas* on their land. The group
includes Diane Stokes from Muckaty who strongly disagrees with the small
number of Muckaty Traditional Owners who have accepted $12 million in
exchange for agreeing to accept the waste. 

The group seek to confront and dispel the myth used to justify the
siting of the nuclear waste dump in Australia, that remote areas are
uninhabited and lifeless places. With an estimated 40 years of storage
at Lucas Heights, there is no need to be transporting spent fuel to the
Northern Territory.



Further Information: 	Nic Clyde: 0417 742 754

* The Liberal Party Federal Council passed a motion earlier this month
urging the Government to build a "worldwide nuclear waste storage in the
geotechnically stable and remote areas that Australia has to offer".


Nic Clyde
Adviser, Greens MLC Ian Cohen
Macquarie Street, Sydney, 2000
Tel: +61-2-9230 3305, Fax: +61-2-9230 2267
Mobile: 0417 742 754
Web: www.iancohen.org.au