Right now there is a plan to ship up to one-third of the world’s high-level radioactive waste and bury it in South Australia.
This plan would impact Australians for the next 300,000 years.
It would enable aging nuclear reactors around the world – now under pressure to close because of their intractable waste problems – to stay open for another decade – more risk and more waste.
Let’s tell South Australian Premier Weatherill not to open Australia’s door to the world’s dirty and dangerous radioactive waste. We should not prop up this declining industry for a few more years and impose its waste on generations of our children to come.
Muckaty Traditional Owners united against a plan to dump radioactive waste on their country, and won.
There’s an organised campaign for an international waste dump in Australia, an expensive “consultation” and social media campaign which presents the plan as if it’s a done deal. We need to counter this push.
The future for Australia – and the world’s – energy needs is renewable, not radioactive. Energy from the sun, wind, and waves is abundant and will never run out. It doesn’t pollute the air we breathe or the water we drink. Nuclear energy is dirty, dangerous, expensive and belongs in the past.
After seven decades of commercial nuclear power operations, not one nation has a final disposal site for high level waste and the sector is strewn with failed projects, timeline delays and massive cost overruns.
The global nuclear power sector is dying out due to public opposition, extreme costs and the rise of renewable energy.
Nuclear waste is like zombie waste – it remains undead.
Will you sign our petition to send a strong message so Premier Weatherill knows Australians don’t support South Australia storing radioactive waste from all around the world?
Together, we can ensure that South Australia’s future is bright, not glowing.
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Latest Supporters
I know! Let’s take all the waste and bury it under Jay Weatherill’s house!
Dont want this shit in our back yard
we don’t want this in out back yard! why are other countries sending it to us??? because they are a lot smarter than you, they know that it is dangerous! we don’t want this in our country!!!!!! please, listen to us who matter, instead of ignoring what we have to say………. NO WAY DO WE WANT RADIOACTIVE WASTE IN THIS COUNTRY OR OUR BACK YARD!!!!!!!
Australia isn’t a dumping ground for other country’s waste.
For God’s sake!!!! Nuclear is dead – we don’t want their waste contaminating Australia!! Bad enough that we have to get rid of our own waste let alone everyone else’s!!! NO WAY!!!!
Never in a million years. I want my descendants to be safe.
How dare you make this decision for every single generation to come, totally appalling, IT WILL NEVER BE SAFE, EVER. So many countries scaling back their uranium and you want to increase the threat to us, I am totally DISGUSTED with you and I will make sure your name goes down in history as the most destructively INSANE man in Australia.
This should not be happening to South Australia this will make us a target for terrorism as these will be stored above ground for up to 80 years No way Jay
A very big NO to any thing nuclear. For that past several years Jay Weatherall himself has been touting SA as the cleanest and greenest state in Aust and to the world. That is a major reason that we can export our products overseas particularly to Asia. Why jeopardise this for some whacky scheme that WON’T bring us riches and will contaminate us for 1000’s of years. It is just ludicrous. And Jay should be trying to stop the Federal Govt from placing a nuclear dump in/near the Flinders Ranges. A pristine area of much significance for all sorts of reasons … none less than tourism and exports. JAY STOP THIS MADNESS. Look back to the states history of non nuclear stance and laws and respect them. We didn’t want it then and we don’t want/need it now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This is an absolutely hairbrained idea. Don’t do it.
It is such a huge, dangerous and bad decision to take on a third of the worlds radioactive waste and have it transported and dumped in South Australia. Once it’s here there is no going back.
For us, and the generations upon generations to come, please don’t be so shortsighted in going after the quick buck.
Keep South Australia beautiful, for now and forever.
Every country should be responsible for their own waste .