Dear wobbles,

The Australian Government has no choice in
some things if it wants US military protection
in times of crises. However, it should insist
that appropriate non-deteriorating containment
be submitted for approval in the storage of
its military toxic pollutants.

However, as I explained in my earlier post -
Australia geologically has underground sources
of water - which will probably be contaminated
by any underground storage methods of pollutants.
Because no matter how secure we think the storage
methods may at first appear, things with time, do
deteriorate.

Foxy,

The presence of military bases is one thing but the testing of Depleted Uranium weapons results in wind-borne radioactive fallout over a widespread area. We've signed a secret 20 year agreement to provide them with ...what?

If it's not that dangerous, why don't they test them in their own country?

I recommend the documentary "Blowin' in the wind" by David Bradbury for an excellent background.
http://www.bsharp.net.au/htm/the-film.htm

Dear wobbles,

Thank You for the film site reference.

It was a real eye-opener, and made me
angry.

What is our Government thinking?

Geographically the US has the same area of
'wasteland' and desert (if not more) than
Australia. It's time that our Government
recognises this and prohibits the contamination
of our land.

Anything that endangers the lives of our people
should be denied approval.

Issues like these should be raised in our newspapers
prior to an election.

People should be made aware of what's going on.

Actually , this link is very interesting ;
http://www.sprol.com/?p=176

I wonder how it measures up in comparison.

Dear All-,

Thanks so much for that link.

What an eye-opener.

It could be us, if our Government agrees
to the US dumping their toxic waste in this
country.

Where does our future lie? - is the thought
on my mind at the moment.

I had no idea about Chelyabinsk, Russia.
And I thought Chernobyl was bad enough.

Poor people...

I had learnt of it Foxy , some six months ago , when I accidently typed the wrong name from my memory , Chelyabinsk whilst on GNE , it sounded close , my Russian is quite lousy , and my eyes popped out of my head when I read this .
The history in brief is, the Ural region had a drought situation also, and the reservoir that was used as a dump was starved of water, and as the level receded, the nuclear waste containers became exposed and the obvious has occurred.
Chernobyl looks like a wet baby nappy in comparison,
I cannot understand why an incident such as this; absolute catastrophic, not only to the people of the area, and Europe for that matter, then the nth poll, and the atmospheric contamination that carries it far beyond the borders , and yet, nobody knows or wants to know about it.
As sad as it is, Ludwig has probably stated the obvious corollary of events in regards to Governments and departments.
We mere peasants do not count for much other than for Taxation purposes.

We hear of so much environmental propaganda , but not the things that matter. They must be pre paid events .