Submitted by Site Admin on Tue, 05/02/2002 - 00:53
February 4, 2002
The Public Eye on Davos? Conference ended yesterday with a panel discussion on the topic of Security and the World Economy. Irene Khan, the General Secretary of Amnesty International, who had also attended the World Economic Forum (WEF), praised the quality of the Public Eye Conference in her talk. Irene Khan said that a discussion like the Public Eye?s final panel would have been unthinkable at the WEF.
Submitted by Site Admin on Thu, 31/01/2002 - 00:45
January 30, 2002
The lurch of governments towards more of the policies that threaten the future of the Planet must be challenged at this year?s Johannesburg Earth Summit now just over 200 days away.
Submitted by Site Admin on Thu, 24/01/2002 - 00:39
January 23, 2002
Environment group Friends of the Earth today welcomed news that international nuclear waste dump proponent Pangea Resources is closing operations in Australia due to community opposition, calling on State and Federal Governments do the same and pull the pin on plans to dump Australian nuclear waste on an unwilling community.
Submitted by Site Admin on Wed, 16/01/2002 - 00:38
January 15, 2002
Friends of the Earth is demanding Federal Government intervention to regulate uranium mining in light of the South Australian Government cover up and failure to act on a series of accidents involving radioactive material in the state. The call follows further revelations of another 24 spills involving radioactive material at the Beverley uranium mine in less than 2 years. The national environment organisation has put forward steps that should be taken by State and Federal Governments to address approval and regulatory failures.
Submitted by Site Admin on Tue, 15/01/2002 - 00:08
January 14, 2002
Friends of the Earth is demanding stronger regulation of uranium mining in South Australia following another major accident involving radioactive material at the Beverley mine. The spill of 60,000 litres of contaminated liquid, including uranium, sulfuric acid and heavy metals, occurred at the site last Friday evening. The spill is one of a series of accidents that show a failure of both state and federal approval processes and regulation of nuclear sites.
Submitted by Site Admin on Fri, 21/12/2001 - 23:03
December 21, 2001
To Argentine Parliament
Dear Congressmen/Women
We the undersigned Australian Members of Parliament, environment and community organisations, understand the Argentine Parliament is to discuss a Nuclear Cooperation Agreement between Australia and Argentina in the week commencing 17th December.
Submitted by Site Admin on Wed, 12/12/2001 - 23:01
December 12, 2001
Friends of the Earth has today released a critical review of the Honeymoon Uranium Project?s environmental assessment. The report challenges both the technical and procedural approach taken by the SA and Federal Government leading to the mine?s recent controversial approval. The environment group holds strong concern that genuine Environment Impact Assessment has failed as a result of the governments? pro uranium policy.
Submitted by Site Admin on Mon, 10/12/2001 - 22:51
December 10, 2001
An audit conducted by Friends of the Earth in a Brisbane supermarket has exposed the inadequacy of the new GE labelling laws with not a single product found to contain a GE label.
Submitted by Site Admin on Thu, 06/12/2001 - 22:49
December 6, 2001
Friends of the Earth has today called for a hold on approval of the Honeymoon Uranium Project approval following revelations of an acid leak at the mine (The Advertiser p.1 Thursday 6th Dec.). Both company and government statements have claimed re-injection of radioactive waste to groundwater in the region is safe. Friends of the Earth has asked for full disclosure and review of the project, concerned that at commercial operating rates such leakage will continue to occur.
