Hi Julie Vickers

I presume you are a West Australian when you recommend Lancelin or Bunbury for sites to build a nuclear reactor. Should the Liberal Party win government in WA in 2009, your may see your dream realised.

Questions I must pose:

1. Do you really believe that in the advent of nuclear power, John Howard will shut down his beloved coal industry?

2. In the unlikely closure of coal mines, which decade do you envisage this occurring?

3. Did you know that recently the EPA in WA recommended that the application for expansion of coal mining in Collie be rejected due to the potential damage to the environment and that the State Government ignored that recommendation and gave its approval?

4. How long do you believe it will be before we have a sufficient number of nuclear reactors to significantly mitigate greenhouse gases?

5. Are you aware of the most recent accidents in the nuclear industry? Japan - July 2007, Germany (2 sites) June 2007, Tennessee US 2006, Sellafield UK 2005, Hungary 2003.

6. Have you realised that in the advent of nuclear power for WA, many thousands of square kilometres (already pegged for uranium) will be plundered for the mining of uranium?

7. Are you aware, that an upsurge in uranium mining will drastically increase emissions of CO2, other greenhouse gases and radioactive emissions? Just one Australian uranium mine, in its last annual report, emitted 1,500,000kgs of oxides of nitrogen and 2,400,000kgs of particulate matter. (www.npi.gov.au)

8. Did you know that one uranium company in Australia was prosecuted last year for supplying drinking and bathing water to its workers, which exceeded the "safe" level by 400 times?

9. Did you know that humans must already cope with the adverse health effects from normal background radiation and that additional man-made radioactive emissions add to the background level and place humans at significant risk?

10. Have you ever been to a Liberal Party State Conference to learn how they "debate" the issue of nuclear energy?

Rights Flattened As Government Steamrolls Towards Waste Dump
The approval today by Science
Minister, Julie Bishop, of the highly controversial nuclear waste
nomination at the Northern Territory's Muckaty Station means that
Territorians are even closer to having a dump steamrolled into their
back yard. The approval comes despite the Howard Government telling Territorians before the 2004 election that:
"I think the reality of this is that there's no one on the mainland who particularly wants a nuclear waste dump in their backyard, and that is why we're pursuing the practical option of going to an offshore island,so the Northern Territorians can take that as an absolute categorical assurance."...(Senator Ian Campbell, ABC Radio (PM), 30/09/04)Today's announcement is yet
the next chapter in the decade-long saga of lies and mismanagement that has become Howard's waste dump.
The Howard Government has tried to impose its waste dump at numerous sites around the country; settling on the Northern Territory because of its ability to steamroll the Territory's rights and impose the dump against its will. After forcing legislation through Federal Parliament, the Science Minister now has full Ministerial discretion over the siting of a nuclear waste facility in the Northern Territory. Now to cap it all there is now Nuclear fallout fear for the Northern Territory, Northern WA and Queensland because Indonesia are considering Nuclear Power this is madness as the islands are susceptible to earthquakes, eruptions and tidal waves. Ziggy Switkowski believes he would feel completely safe within a nuclear power station if it was hit by an earthquake surely he has lost all credibilty if he believes that.

If grey, out-of-touch, conservative Howard era’s legacy really matters something in Australian history, it will have been nuclear renaissance aspects in Australia.

With all my personal attitude at and opinion of last 11 years, rejecting the nuclear future is synonymous to surrounding/submitting this Anglo-oriented land to Osama’s demands.

Dear Editor
At a recent meeting in Perth Kevin Kamps who is qualified on Nuclear Issues said that Reactor plants will become defacto waste storage sites if Australia adopts nuclear power.Washshington-based Kevin Kamps, who was on a national tour with the Wilderness Society, said that the public's primary concern should be where the governments planned to store nuclear waste.
He said US experience showed reactors, generally located near cities, had been forced to store toxic waste while the argument of where to build a national dump continued.
American nuclear reactors produced up to 30 metric tonnes of waste each year, which posed serious health and environmental risks, he said. ''Nuclear power is still a very contentious issue in the US with most people asking where do we put the waste,'' he said.
''If reactors are built, they will serve as waste storage sites for many years in the future and there is a massive risk for accidents.''
Mr Kamps pointed to the Yucca Mountain proposed dump in Nevada that had now been delayed as a groundswell of opposition grew.
He said nearby residents and environmentalists did not want the dump because of the site's location on a fault line, near drinking water supplies and on volcanic land.
He argued that the same problem would happen in Australia if nuclear energy was developed.
The South Australian city of Port Augusta, north of Adelaide, was named the most likely location for Australia's first nuclear power plant by The Australia Institute thinktank.
Mr Kamps dismissed the argument put by Prime Minister John Howard that nuclear energy was needed to cut greenhouse gas emissions produced by coal.
''The creation of a nuclear power industry to decrease emissions trades one ecological disaster for another,'' he claimed.
The government should concentrate on improving energy efficiency and renewable energies to solve global warning, he said.

What would humans eat as a natural food’s finished?

What all this cry of nuce power about but a quest for simply engineering sustainable solutions of nuclear energy production?