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Originally Posted by glend
Please get your facts straight. The six sites being considered are for Australian nuclear waste - not a world dump site.
Now down the track Australia does have an 'opportunity' to deep bury waste for countries that we supplied uranium to as exports. This is probably a moral obligation as well.
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Facts can be manipulated, as you well know Glen.
I was thinking more along the lines of 'down the track' because I heard a recent radio interview discussing the fact that Australia could wipe off some of its debt by becoming the world's nuclear waste dumping ground.
Other countries are willing to pay big money to dump their waste here.
Now as has been mentioned, our waste from medical and research should be stored here. We produce it, we should be responsible to 'dispose of it'.
I don't want to see our country though become the dumping ground for other nations that use our resource for nuclear weapons etc (like the British and others did back when they conducted nuclear bomb testing here).
I fail to see our 'moral' obligation in that.
'Nuclear' for medical and research that can save human life, I'm all for it.
'Nuclear' for weapons and other uses that destroy human life, I'm against it.
Perhaps I have learnt not to trust the government, any government.
That I try and read between the lines and not just blindly digest the 'facts and figures' as they're presented to me.
Like the days in which we live, the forums, social media and even the news are infested by 'armchair art critics' as I like to refer to them.
Like art critics they have the head knowledge and spit out facts, figures and opinions yet they themselves fail to possess the ability to produce 'a painting', the very thing they purport to be experts in, so to speak.
I don't have much respect for such people and don't be fooled into thinking I'm a 'Greeny', or easily swayed by the ' professional outragers'.
My opinions are based on my experiences in life, using discernment to make a judgement call on matters that effect me and my family.
I assume you have similar concerns about governments and the state of the world in which we live, no?
RB