Protesters step up campaign against nuclear waste dump

Earlier this year, legislation passed Parliament naming Muckaty as the only place now under active consideration.

Cat Beaton, nuclear-free campaigner at the NT Environment Centre, said: ”While the government have not shown us the science or a legitimate need to establish a remote waste repository in the NT, we have shown them that we will not take this lying down.”

Mr Ferguson said the government had a ”long-standing and bipartisan agreement” with the local community, backed by law, that Lucas Heights not become a national nuclear waste repository.

Federal Court action against the NT plans was launched in 2010 and the matter is due to be heard again in November. The action is being led by five groups of traditional owners of the area who say a small group of traditional owners gave permission for the site to be used as a waste dump without their permission.

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