No Place for Nuclear Waste: Bearing Witness to a Dangerous Delivery


Human Wrongs Watch

By Rashini Suriyaarachchi*

7 December 2015 (Greenpeace) – When a Greenpeace investigation found that nuclear waste returning to Australia by ship from France has been classified as high-level waste by French authorities, contradicting Australia’s claims over its radioactivity, we knew we had to act.

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Credit: Dominic Lorrimer/Greeenpeace

So this weekend, Greenpeace activists and volunteers followed the dodgy waste from port in Wollongong all the way to Lucas Heights in south Sydney.

Find out what went down on Storify.

http://storify.com/greenpeaceaustp/there-s-no-good-place-for-nuclear-waste/embed?border=false

Source: Greenpeace

Act now: Don’t turn Australia into the world’s nuclear waste dump

Write to Minister Christopher Pyne and ask him to rule out turning Australia into the world’s toxic waste dump.

*Rashini Suriyaarachchi is the Digital Communications Officer at Greenpeace Australia Pacific.

Suriyaarachchi’s article was published in Greenpeace. Go to Original

2015 Human Wrongs Watch


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