Our government is considering unlocking radioactive waste from secure storage in southern Sydney.
Why? To put it on a truck and haul it all the way to either the Flinders Ranges or the Eyre Peninsula in regional South Australia.
Radioactive waste risks our air, soil and water. It damages the genetic and reproductive systems of plants, animals and people. And this waste lasts for up to ten thousand years.
The waste cannot be trucked through our communities. There are too many risks and too many communities that have had no say.
Double handling this waste means twice the trouble and twice the risk.
Our government has called for input on this decision from “anyone with an interest, no matter where they live."
So let's speak out to protect our communities!
Sign the open letter now asking Resource Minister Matt Canavan to keep the radioactive waste sealed away and out of communities in New South Wales and South Australia:
As people from all across Australia, we call on the federal government and Matt Canavan to keep the radioactive waste securely stored at Australia's Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation in Lucas Heights, Sydney, and out of communities in New South Wales and South Australia.
The waste cannot be trucked through our communities for dumping until a credible storage solution is found.
Latest Supporters
Moving this radioactive waste will expose people to risk and also to pollute an area that I and many others want to visit in safety. Leave it where it is until you have a solution, not just a plan to look like you are dealing with it.
Please leave the radioactive waste at Lucas Heights until a TOTALLY SAFE STORAGE and TRANSPORT means can be found and agreed upon by those nearby who may be effected.
Patrick Mooney. Fraser/Howard Revisited. Like poor cousin Coal. It’s in their DNA.
NO TRUCKING OF NUCLEAR WASTE NOW OR EVER
RESPECT THE RIGHTS OF THE PEOPLE OF AUSTRALIA WHO ELECTED YOU TO REPRESENT THEM,
Show more leadership, creative thinking and respect for the people you claim to represent. Putting us, our children and our environment in danger for generations to come would be grossly negligent, incompetent and immoral. Is that really the legacy you want to leave behind?
No nuclear waste dump on Adnyamathanha yarta. It will destroy our cultural heritage sites, Dreaming story lines thus causing cultural genocide upon us.
Please don’t dump this nuclear waste in Kimba or Hawker. Both unwilling communities. The negatives far out weigh the positives.
Let’s make sense and be logical Matt Canavan. Don’t move the radioactive wastes and store it on SA. Our family lives on SA. The risk is too high. Why are we spending tax payer’s money, our money, on this? Why don’t you use the money to help public schools install more gardens, or solar panels, or rainwater tanks??
No nuclear Matt Canavan. Solar. Wind. Hydro is safe.
This is a NATIONAL issue affecting many generation to come: local communities should not be made scapegoats for the rest; especially so when ‘informed consent’ requires full disclosure – which in this case has not occurred…
I was born & raised in SA, the risks to the state are far too high to store nuclear waste. Kill off this proposal.
All South Australians voted a definite NO to this proposal
It is not a decision for two small towns to make
Make decisions that will provide a safe and healthy future for our children
There is more to life than money
The radioactive waste should stay at Lucas Heights where there is many years of maintaining this highly toxic material. It should not be travelling over our country whether by road or ship due to the very high risks of accidental disposal and all the ramifications of that. It must not be stored in the Flinders Ranges which has already been found to be highly unsatisfactory for storing waste of this nature.