urg::: Traditional owners to keep up dump protests

[Len Kanaar - FoE Sydney]

ABC

Last Update: Tuesday, September 20, 2005. 8:00am (AEST)
Traditional owners to keep up dump protests

A group of traditional owners has returned from an anti-nuclear 
meeting in South Australia with plans to hold a rally on the streets 
of Alice Springs.

The group is from Mount Everard, north of Alice Springs, which is one 
of three sites in the Northern Territory identified as a possible 
location for a national nuclear waste dump.

A spokesman for the group, Julias Bloomfield, says they learnt many 
things about nuclear waste at the meeting in Quorn, near Port Augusta.

Mr Bloomfield says they are worried about sickness coming to their country.

"We love our bush, we love our bush tucker and we don't want any 
waste dump there any radiation, any radiation around," he said.

Mr Bloomfield says the community will continue to fight the proposal 
and they want to hold a protest march in Alice Springs against the 
dump in the near future.


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