Fed: Not in my backyard: Nuclear waste debate returns

From: AAP General News (Australia) | Date: June 7, 2005 | Copyright information

AAP General News (Australia)
06-07-2005
Fed: Not in my backyard: Nuclear waste debate returns

CANBERRA, June 7 AAP - Federal cabinet meets today to discuss the fate of Australia's
nuclear waste as the territory most likely to become a dumping site flatly rejects the
tag.

In the midst of the Northern Territory election campaign, both the NT Labor government
and Country Liberal Party opposition have refused to allow the territory to be used as
a dumping site.

A national nuclear waste dump, originally proposed for an outback South Australian
site, was scrapped before last year's federal ...

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