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Exposing the the LIES of the NUCLEAR LOBBY – October theme

An important nuclear lie is that we’ll need nuclear power to fuel electric cars, and that renewable energy can’t do it.

In fact, electric car batteries can be charged in a variety of ways.

Charging stations can get renewable power from the main grid, or directly from an array of solar panels above the charging station.

As costs come down, and batteries and car designs have improved, good serviceable cars, able to go 100 Km without recharge, are coming at a reasonable price, particularly taking into account the long-term saving in fuel costs.

Today’s batteries last for decades, in fact, for the life of the car itself, thus eliminating the cost of replacing them.

Renewable energy is ideal for electric cars. Over 70% of car travel in Australia involves shorter trips around towns. The Renewable energy car can be ‘topped up’ overnight, in the garage. Its battery stores the renewable energy, for use in daytime – there’s no “baseload power problem” - ( the nuclear lobby would claim ‘baseload” as a problem for electric cars.)

Solutions for the transition period: -

1. hybrid cars having both petrol and electric power

2. people can have solar-powered cars for normal town and city driving, with the second petrol-fuelled car for very long trips.

September 30, 2010 Posted by Christina MacPherson | Christina reviews | antinuclear, Australia, climate change, energy, renewable, solar | Leave a Comment
Hypocrisy of Australian Liberal Party over Aboriginal Land Rights

Aboriginal people from Muckaty north of Tennant Creek were told by the Liberal Party they would only receive funding for roads, housing and education if they accept a nuclear waste dump on their land. Abbott and Scullion are continuing to support laws which would force this waste dump on Muckaty by over-riding the Aboriginal Land Rights Act (NT), the Aboriginal Heritage Act and the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.

Tony Abbott and Nigel Scullion don’t care about Aboriginal Land Rights Statement on Tony Abbott’s Wild Rivers bill from the Intervention Rollback Action Group Alice Springs, October 6 2010 www.rollbacktheintervention.wordpress.com/statements/

We have been sickened by the hypocrisy of Liberal leader Tony Abbott and Liberal NT Senator Nigel Scullion on their recent crusade to overturn Queensland ‘Wild Rivers’ legislation. Read more »

October 8, 2010 Posted by Christina MacPherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, aboriginal issues, politics | Leave a Comment
Manifesto pledges more nuclear weapons – USA Republicans

It was the Bush Republican administration that got us into Iraq and Afghanistan, dragging reluctant allies with them. If they win control of the House and Senate they plan on expanding the domestic stockpile of nuclear arms. Who these missiles are defending us from remains a question.

Missile Madness…….. - Dunfermline Press, 6th October, 2010 The Republican party released their political ‘Pledge to America’ manifesto and it is really disturbing. Rebuilding the US ballistic missile programme (ICBMs) is what caught my attention. Returning to the days of missile silos across the US is part of their planned defense initiative. Do we really need another Cold War? Read more »

October 8, 2010 Posted by Christina MacPherson | Uncategorized | antinuclear, Australia, nuclear weapons | Leave a Comment
Nuclear power dead in the water, no chance in Australia

Nuclear,again, John Quiggin, 8 Oct 10, “……. Except in China (and maybe India) nuclear power isn’t getting bigger any time soon. Following the failure of Obama’s energy bill and the GFC, the US “nuclear renaissance” is dead in the water, and the same is true in Europe. Read more »

October 8, 2010 Posted by Christina MacPherson | General News | antinuclear, Australia, nuclear, nuclear costs, uranium | Leave a Comment
Australia’s uranium – part of a dangerous nuclear cycle

There is no way the use of uranium purchased from countries such as Australia can be policed. Once another country owns the uranium it can use it for military purposes,

The Danger of Nuclear Power Stations, Adventure Australia, October 07, 2010 Countries are going ahead with investment in nuclear power despite very real dangers. Similar crises to Chernobyl and Three Mile Island will definitely occur in the future with catastrophic results for resident of neighboring nations of the country experiencing the problem. Read more »

October 8, 2010 Posted by Christina MacPherson | General News | nuclear, antinuclear, uranium, nuclear wastes, Australia, nuclear weapons | Leave a Comment
Robots to guard 1,360 square miles of radioactive ground

The Nevada National Security Site is the location of a thousand nuclear weapons tests that have left the site contaminated with tens of millions of cubic feet of low-level radioactive waste. The site spans 1,360 square miles

Robo Tanks to Guard Nuclear Facility. What Could Possibly Go Wrong? | Discover Magazine,7 Oct 10, Who needs people to guard a nuclear weapons facility when you can build an autonomous robot to do it? Read more »

October 8, 2010 Posted by Christina MacPherson | Uncategorized | antinuclear, uranium, radioactive, nuclear wastes, nuclear costs, radiation | Leave a Comment
Broadcast Australia goes renewable energy

A 15kW wind turbine was installed, along with a 5kW solar power system. Surplus generated electricity is stored in two banks of deep cycle batteries, providing a total of 5800 amp hour storage; enough to provide full power autonomy for two days….The Broadcast Australia network covers approximately 580 transmission sites located throughout the metropolitan, regional and rural areas of Australia.

Broadcast Australia Powers Site With Wind And Solar Energy : Renewable Energy News, 7 Oct 10, Broadcast Australia has upgraded a broadcast transmission site in Tasmania to be powered by renewable energy. Read more »

October 7, 2010 Posted by Christina MacPherson | Tasmania, energy | antinuclear, global warming, climate change, Australia, renewable, energy, solar, wind, carbon | Leave a Comment
Nuclear power is not “emission free’ – Canadian ruling

The Advertising Standards Canada, the organisation which regulates the Canadian advertising industry, ruled earlier this year that claims of nuclear power being ‘emission free’ made in adverts by the Power Workers’ Union ‘were inaccurate, unsupported, and misleading’. The Union was told to remove its ads.

‘Emission free’ nuclear power is more greenwash | Greenpeace International, 7 Oct 10,

We’ve discussed before on Nuclear Reaction the nuclear industry’s attempts to greenwash nuclear power by rebranding it ‘clean’. It’s a description of this most contaminating of energy sources that nuclear boosters are pushing more and more in the debate about the future of nuclear power. Read more »

October 7, 2010 Posted by Christina MacPherson | Uncategorized | nuclear, antinuclear, uranium, global warming, carbon | Leave a Comment
Australian govt can use carbon pricing to provide renewable energy infrastructure

The construction of new renewable energy grid infrastructure is one example of an investment-centred measure. Expanded electricity grid infrastructure would open up renewable resources for sustainable development and help overcome a non-market barrier to clean energy deployment……

The Gillard government and those in the parliament who support effective action on climate change can use carbon-pricing legislation to secure funding for an ambitious nation-building climate policy agenda.

Want to stop climate change? Move beyond carbon pricing, Rooted, Leigh Ewbank, October 7, 2010 by Crikey: Read more »

October 7, 2010 Posted by Christina MacPherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, politics | antinuclear, global warming, climate change, Australia, renewable, energy, carbon | Leave a Comment
USA federal govt approves huge solar project on govt land

the projects in Southern California involve a square mile of glimmering solar panels near Victorville and a large array of satellite dish-like sun catchers covering about 10 square miles in the remote Imperial Valley.Both could start transmitting electricity to the state grid by the end of 2011 or early 2012.

Feds approve 2 Calif solar plants on public land, MontereyHerald.com :By JASON DEAREN Associated Press: 10/05/2010 SAN FRANCISCO—For the first time, federal land managers gave final approval Tuesday for the construction of two large solar installations on public lands that could power hundreds of thousands of homes with renewable energy. Read more »

October 7, 2010 Posted by Christina MacPherson | Uncategorized | antinuclear, climate change, energy, global warming, renewable, solar | Leave a Comment

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NUCLEAR POWER and SECRECY and LIES – October theme

Secrecy has been a top priority, not only for those atomic bomb tests inthe 50′s and 60′s , but also for the effects on the soldiers involved there, and the aboriginal and non-aboriginal communities affected.

In the 1970′s Australia was monitoring the radioactivity in the fallout from the French atmospheric atomic bomb tests in the Pacific. This monitoring was abruptly stopped, alomost ceratinly by the intervention of Professor Ernest Titterton, of the Australian Atomic Energy Agency

Nuclear secrecy is essential – both in times of war and in peace, for obvious security reasons. But the secretive origins of Australia’s nuclear involvement set the pattern for the industry.

















Today, the operations of Pine Gap remain secret. The Australian government’s Atomic Energy Commission, has been transformed into Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO). ANSTO masquerades as some sort of medical research operation, under its spruiker, Ziggy Switkowski. Switkowski pitches nuclear power as a necessary and viable industry, and conceals both the connection to nuclear weapons, and the increasing development of renewable energy overseas, especially in Asia.

Australia’s mainstream media participates in the secrecy over uranium and nuclear power. The revelations by Christopher Boyce, in 1982, were not covered. The involvement of Australia in the International framework for Nuclear Energy Cooperation, with its obligation to take back nuclear waste, is never publicised.

The issue of nuclear waste is deliberately clouded by the Australian government, and plans to dump nuclear reactor waste at Muckaty, on Aboriginal land, are portrayed as a “medical necessity”. With the USA in turmoil over its mounting nuclear waste problem, Muckaty is very likely to be the way in for Australia to once again oblige America – this time by importing its radioactive wastes.

Nuclear discussions will be held between Australia’s Prime minister, and USA Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton - but you can bet that this will involve secret negotiations,.

When it comes to the uranium industry, Australian government policy is pretty much in the hands of uranium mining’s big cheeses -



Don Argus,

















Marius Kloppers. In government, Energy and Environment Ministries are run by mining advocates, Martin Ferguson and Greg Combet.

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