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Publish date: November 10, 2008
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The Newspoll, commissioned by the Australian Conservation Foundation, surveyed 1200 people nationally last weekend, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported.
Sixty-two per cent are against exporting uranium to countries with nuclear weapons and 40 per cent oppose its export for use in electricity generation.
The ACF’s David Noonan says the poll is aimed at giving the Government and mining companies an indication of people’s attitudes, said the ABC.
"We’re looking to put a lot of clear community expectations in the way of Rudd Labor Government considerations to signing on in future to the proposed Russian deal that [John] Howard and [former Russian president Vladimir] Putin put forward before the federal election," he said.
But the Uranium Association’s Simon Clarke says Australia does not export uranium to countries that have not signed the non-proliferation treaty, the ABC reported.
He says previous surveys have found that more than half the population support uranium being exported for peaceful purposes.
"For 30 years Australia has been exporting uranium for peaceful purposes, and in that time there has been no use of Australian uranium in nuclear weapons," Clarke said, according to the ABC.
Recent attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant "mark the beginning of a new and gravely dangerous front of the war," the UN atomic agency's director general said last week.
After years of inaction, Germany is working on its Carbon Management Strategy to resolve how CCS can play a role in climate action in industry. At the end of February, the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action published first key points and a proposal to amend the law Kohlenstoffdioxid Speicherungsgesetz (KSpG). Bellona Deutschland, who was actively involved in the previous stakeholder dialogue submitted a statement in the association hearing.
In the midst of a global discussion on whether natural gas should be used as a transitional fuel and whether emissions from its extraction, production, transport and use are significantly less than those from other fossil fuels, Russia has developed ambitious plans to increase its own production of liquified natural gas (LNG) in the Arctic – a region with 75% of proven gas reserves in Russia – to raise its share in the international gas trade.
In this news digest, we monitor events that impact the environment in the Russian Arctic. Our main focus lies in identifying the factors that contribute to pollution risks and climate change.