Nuclear Waste Storage Facility In The Northern Territory

Even if you accept the need to build a waste storage facility in the northern territory which the greens totally reject the most direct route from lucas heights to the nt is nowhere near south.

Ordained minister package. In may 2007 the northern land council nlc an elected aboriginal body in the northern territory with the ngapa clan who are the traditional owners nominated the muckaty pastoral holding as a potential site for the national radioactive waste facility. The objects of this act are to protect the safety health and welfare of the people of the territory and the environment in which they live by prohibiting. The nuclear waste transport storage and disposal prohibition act 2004 the act prohibits the importation of nuclear wastes including naturally occurring radioactive material norms into the northern territory and the establishment of permanent storage and disposal facilities for nuclear waste.

A the construction or operation of a nuclear waste storage facility in the territory. 2 an offence against subsection 1 is an environmental offence level 1. Although the northern territory parliament has passed legislation banning the storage or transport of any nuclear waste the federal government is able to use its external affairs power to.

The act contains a number of exemptions designed to ensure that northern territory industry is. The coalition believes that proceeding with plans to build a nuclear waste facility in the northern territory will be the best way to safely and responsibly dispose of it.