In the lead up to last year’s federal election, the Labor party campaigned against the opening of a nuclear waste dump in the Northern Territory.

Labor promised a new approach to the management of radioactive waste and vowed to repeal coalition legislation that would allow the Commonwealth to build a dump in the Territory.

While the Environment Minister Peter Garrett has recently promised to scrap the law, the Minister for Resources and Energy, Martin Ferguson says otherwise.

The Australian Conservation Foundation says that those people who will be affected by the dump have been left in limbo, with no idea as to whether or not it will be built.

The ACF’s Adele Pedder, spoke with 2ser’s Belinda Merhab.