ALP goes dirty
Kevin Rudd has just done what what John Howard has failed to do for years - convince many environmentalists not to support Labor at the coming federal election.
By ending Labor's "No New Uranium Mines" policy he has opened up Australia to the toxic waste that mining causes and to being responsible for the un-handlable radioactive waste that will be the end product of the mines. Not forgetting of course that portion that makes its way into the hands of terrorists (inside or outside governments).
I sent the following letter to key decision makers earlier this month after seeing David Bradbury's hard fitting documentary "Hard Rain". I encourage everyone to take a look at this movie when they get a chance.
Dear ALP policy makers.
I believe we are at a cross-roads, climate change is a real threat, and renewable energy is ready to come to our rescue and meet the energy needs of ourselves and future generations.
Now is the time to make the choice - to invest in a clean, green, renewable future for our kids, or to expand uranium mining and invest our future in probably the most dangerous set of technologies mankind has ever known, and to what avail...
Nuclear is more expensive than wind already, and in the timescales that it will take to build nukes, we could build concentrated solar, or geothermal or other technologies.
And if we built nukes to scale , then the uranium wouldn't last more than a few decades anyway, so all we'd be left with is a huge pile of waste and still the need to build the renewables.
Exporting uranium overseas is no alternative - the waste will still exist - and it won't meet other countries future needs any more than it does our own.
I hope you will see the importance of differentiating yourselves from the Coalition over this,
- Mitra Ardron
Posted by admin at April 29, 2007 1:18 PM
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