[Greens-Media] MEDIA RELEASE: 'Muckaty no Solution for Sydney’s Radioactive Waste' - Greens NSW (Dr Mehreen Faruqi MLC)

[Mehreen Faruqi]

Media  Release

05/03/2014
Muckaty no Solution for Sydney’s Radioactive Waste

Greens NSW Spokesperson for Environment, Dr Mehreen Faruqi MLC, has stated that Muckaty is no solution to radioactive waste problems for Sydney, in response to reports that the State Government is planning to send nuclear waste from Hunters Hill to Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory.

“Neither Muckaty in the Northern Territory nor Western Sydney should be the dumping grounds of nuclear waste.

“I note the great campaign the Greens Federal Senators like Senator Scott Ludlam have been running against the proposed Muckaty nuclear waste facility that seeks to turn Australia into a nuclear waste dumping ground.

“The Muckaty plan is opposed by the Aboriginal traditional owners of the land and there are serious concerns about its ecological impact – the New South Wales Government should not be dumping its problems half way across the country.

‘I support the Greens plan for the Independent Commission on the Long Term Safe Storage, Transport and Management of Australia’s Radioactive Waste that will see an end to planning on the run by the O’Farrell Government and Labor in how to deal with nuclear waste”, she concluded.

The story can be found here: http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/kemps-creek-not-getting-contaminated-hunters-hill-soil-20140222-338of.html



Media Contact: Matt Hilton 0423 106 247


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