- Plans to locate a nuclear waste dump at Muckaty Station in the Northern Territory have been dropped after a long legal battle between Aboriginal landowners and the Northern Land Council. Here's a closer look at key issues, events and players. (AAP)www.sbs.com.au/news/article/explainer-muckaty-station-nuclear-dump/wtp8k60qz
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The search for a site at which to dispose of or store Australia's low and intermediate-level radioactive wastes commenced in 1980. A formal public process of site selection that had commenced in 1991 finally failed in 2004. On 7 December 2005, the Australian government passed legislation, the Commonwealth Radioactive Waste Management Act, to facilitate the siting of a radioactive waste facility in the Northern Territory. Section four of the Act allowed the Australian …
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WebOct 26, 2016 · Traditional owners have reopened the case for siting Australia’s first nuclear waste dump at Muckaty Station in the Northern …
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Indigenous landowner claims she was threatened …
WebJun 11, 2014 · If Indigenous clans at Muckaty wouldn't accept a nuclear waste dump on their land, the Northern Land Council (NLC) …
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WebJun 19, 2014 · The Northern Land Council has withdrawn its nomination of Muckaty Station north of Tennant Creek as the site for Australia's first nuclear waste dump. A small …
WebFrom 2006 to 2014, successive federal governments attempted to establish a national nuclear waste dump at Muckaty, 110 km north of Tennant Creek in the Northern …
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Web'Justice has prevailed': Muckaty nuclear waste plan finally dumped. Traditional Owners and campaigners are celebrating today after learning that plans for a national nuclear waste dump at Muckaty in the Northern …
WebJun 19, 2014 · Thanks for being part of history! As most people would have seen, on Thursday 19th June 2014, the good folks of Muckaty and the Beyond Nuclear Initiative have had an extraordinary, and hard fought …
Muckaty landowners say nuclear dump fight is 'back to square …
WebOct 26, 2016 · The proposal of a second site for nuclear dumping at Muckaty Station sends the fight “back to square one,” traditional landowners say. They feel the only way to …