Peter Garrett goes Pro-Nuke, Pro-Pollute
Here’s a political shitstorm that needs to be addressed by the population of our fair country. Its the approval of the Four Mile uranium mine in South Australia. I’m sorry, but as the ex-frontman for the pro-environmentalist band Midnight Oil there’s little doubt that a mass of people who voted Peter Garrett into office would feel betrayed by his party line. I don’t see any cognitive dissonance there at all – in fact he recently said in parliament that he only sang the words in Midnight Oil, he didn’t write them.
Other than the fact that Garrett ran to be Senator in 1984 as a co-founder of the Nuclear Disarmament Party, he was also president of the Australian Conservation Foundation.
But even eclipsing the Labour Party toe-the-line nod of approval by Garrett on the nuclear issue, I’m outraged and shocked by the method of mining the uranium that these guys are approved to use. In the name of protecting the environment. No, this time they’re not drilling big holes that will get them sued by Aboriginal elders at a later date. Hey, they’re going to use sulphuric acid pumped directly into the huge load of underground ore. The acid turns the uranium vein into a sludge which is pumped to the surface and harvested. Of course, that’s a lot of waste product… acid, radioactive material… etcetera…
Hey they’ve got the cure for that. All the waste will be pumped back underground into the aquifer… what the fuck?! Environmentalism, how? Polluting the planets deep water supplies, which we’re going to need bigtime is not fucking environmentally sound. Read Blue Planet Run: the Race to Provide Safe Drinking Water to the World for fuck sake, it’s available as a free PDF if you look on that page carefully. Hands up who feels safe with any of this aquifer pumping bullshit? Seriously?
