Insufficient info
While I fully appreciate the urgency of safe disposal of asbestos and other hazardous building materials after the recent bushfires, I do not feel that a single phone call from Bega Valley Shire Council to residents in the Wanatta Lane area represents the provision of sufficient information about the situation.
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In the phone call from the BVSC staff member, no specific quantities of materials were mentioned, nor was the specific area for disposal within the facility identified.
I understand that action needs to be taken quickly, but this is not an excuse to provide inadequate information to residents in the hope that the disturbing details can be glossed over. Ratepayers are entitled to receive due notice of relevant meetings and copies of thorough plans for the waste disposal in writing, so that they may then offer genuinely informed feedback to council.
Anne Warburton, Wolumla
Nuclear move disturbing
This article is deeply disturbing. The fact that this much planning appears to have gone into this without anyone having a say, and the fact that these idiots can even suggest such an idea in one of the last decent environments left in Australia, sickens me and I want to know this is not going to happen here ever.
Kim Harbottle, Cobargo
Horribly expensive
As a Swiss and Australian citizen and having worked in designing safety systems for the Swiss Goesgen plant I'm astonished how anyone can support one of the most expensive forms of power generation.
Switzerland is decommissioning the first nuclear plant Muehleberg and the cost estimate for it will eat up all the generated profit of the past 50 years! On top of that there is still no answer for the high radiation material endstorage - nobody wants that in their backyard. Decommissioning time will be more than 20 years. Is it responsible to let our kids inherent this massive problem?
There are cheaper and faster solutions to generate our power needed; what we need is a clear energy policy to start, but that might be too hard to achieve with our political situation.
Peter Nageli, Wollongbar
Clean power needed
Yes all Australia needs cleaner power. Sydney already has nuclear medicine from one older reactor and one newer reactor right in suburbs of Sydney.
And if my history is correct, there was going to be a nuclear power station in Jervis Bay back in the 1970s that was cancelled/shelved at change of government.
If the aim is to go carbon neutral, it is impossible as we are all made of carbon atoms. Nuclear war ships visit Australia and they so far have not damaged Australia.
So as long as nuclear is used and kept safe. There will always be accidents, not just from nuclear. How many oil wells have burnt, ships sunk, coal burning under ground? Plus who is recycling solar panels and wind turbine blades? I could go on.
Please follow the experts, not the minor-voting minority. We are never going to stop global warming with our population, but we can help. Go nuclear power please.
Yes I would live beside a reactor as I have been on a ship with eight fitted and I am not glowing.
Peter Mitchell, Millaa Millaa, Queensland
Not welcome here
John Barilaro is a fool and is not welcome in the Bega Valley
Greg Dive, Wallagoot
Deserving a spray
There is so much graffiti on our trains and buildings. Why can't we make a card the holder has to produce so they can buy spray cans, proving that they are at a legal age and helping store owners to check they have no bad records? Plus, send the damage bills to those who do this terrible graffiti.