Community discussion: consent
The Citizens’ Jury found that informed community consent is valued, including the need for all South Australians to be informed enough to make a decision around establishing a nuclear waste storage facility. Comment and share your thoughts on informed community consent and why this is important to you.
Steve Charles
20 Sep 2016
The article in today's Australian demonstrates that the consultation process is a farce. Weatherill decided long ago that he wanted to turn SA into the world's nuclear waste dump, and the "consultation" that has been going on is all for show. We are all being led by the nose to a conclusion that he wants, and the taxpayer pays for it all. Weatherill should be treated with the contempt he deserves.
It would be a disaster for SA to have a nuclear waste dump here.
Claudio Pompili > Steve Charles
28 Oct 2016
read in 26 October's InDaily:
Jay spruiks nuclear expansion as an agent of economic change
Jay Weatherill has told a nuclear industry forum in Adelaide he is personally convinced of the potential for an expansion of South Australia’s role in the fuel cycle, framing the push as part of his ambition to forge a “new economy”.
It appears that Premiere Weatherill has at last come out and played his pro-nuke card. So much for his publicly-avowed position that he would make up his mind when the whole process of the RC has been undertaken. It’s patently clear that he’s been captured by the nuclear industry and foisted an expensive sham of a royal commission onto the SA public, which overwhelmingly has repeatedly been opposed to expansion of nuclear in this state.
In short, it doesn't pass the 'sniff' test. And no amount of exhortation by the pro-nukers to 'know the facts' aka red-herring obfuscation arguments about nuclear physics and engineering, crystal-ball gazing of cure-all waste technologies in the future, and hysterical rants about 'greenies', NIMBYS etc, has convinced the SA public of this credibility of the snow-job RC and its Report.
Premier Weatherill has pushed hard and long at extravagant expense this sham of a Royal Commission. He has played his pro-nuke hand and banked his political career on this process. So be it; the people of SA have been played for fools by Jay and his nuclear mates. Undoubtedly, with typical hubris, he will push this RC sham-democratic process to its inexorable outcome and approve the proposal. We, the people of SA, however, will have the final say and consign Weatherill and his pro-nuke supporters to the waste-bin of history. It will be his 'Bannon/State Bank' moment. Bring it on.