And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 17:21:26 EST >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 52 >Mailing-List: list [EMAIL PROTECTED]; contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Delivered-To: mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [DOEWatch] US firm eyes Outback nuke dump > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Source: ><A HREF="http://www.news-real.com/story/19981203/20/32/1300016_st.html"> >http://www.news-real.com/story/19981203/20/32/1300016_st.html >======================================================= >US firm eyes Outback nuke dump >The Evening Post > >SYDNEY. - Australia could "do the right thing for the world" and take the >opportunity to become a nuclear waste dump, says a private American company >which has made a special promotional video to sell the concept. > >The Australian Government was yesterday forced to hose down the suggestion >Australia was on the brink of becoming an international nuclear toxic dump >after a leaked copy of the video, commissioned by United States-based Pangea >Resources, was given to an environmental group in Britain. > >The tape explains how nuclear waste from all throughout the world could be >shipped to Australia, taken by rail and buried in the Outback. > >Set to soothing background music, a woman's voice explains: "Australia >possesses a unique combination of natural, political and infrastructural >factors, which make it the world best for the time." > >The explanation continues: "All this state-of-the-art engineering and activity >will have a profoundly beneficial economic effect both direct and indirect on >the State and Commonwealth economy, providing thousands of jobs during >operation and construction . . . " > >Pangea president James Voss told ABC News his company had discussions on >regulatory processes at a bureaucratic level, but had not spoken to anyone in >the Australian Government. > >Australia and several other countries possessed geology that was the best in >the world for the long-term isolation of radioactive waste. > >"We think that those in industry that we've spoken to have expressed interest >in Australia doing the right thing for the world to help rid the world of >nuclear weapons and nuclear waste," he said. > >A spokeswoman for Resources Minister Nick Minchin said Australia had no >intention of accepting nuclear waste. - NZPA > >Supplied by New Zealand Press Association >======================================================== > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >To unsubscribe from this mailing list, or to change your subscription >to digest, go to the ONElist web site, at http://www.onelist.com and >select the User Center link from the menu bar on the left. > &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment ...http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ `"` `"` `"` `"` `"` `"`
