Rockhampton Regional Council mayor Margaret Strelow is the first in what will probably be a long line of regional council mayors who don’t want nuclear plants in their region. But will she also oppose uranium enrichment, nuclear warships and nuclear transport in her region?
Strelow told the Morning Bulletin, “It’s not even a discussion I want to have,”
“I’m a Mum and a grandma.”
This week media report that the LNP government are reviving plants for a uranium enrichment plant in Rockhampton in the wake of the lifting of the ban on mining.
Joh Bjelke-Petersen was a booster of uranium enrichment in the early 80s, however widespread protests and the strike action of dockworkers refusing to export the yellowcake form Mary Kathleen mine stymied that plan and led to the 1982 ban on uranium mining.
read the rest
http://qnfa.org/2012/10/29/rockhampton-mayor-says-nuclear-over-my-dead-b...