Traditional land owners appeal against nuclear storage
ABC News Online
Traditional owners from sites earmarked for a potential nuclear waste facility in the Northern Territory have begged a Senate Inquiry not to store nuclear material on their land.
A Senate committee is investigating whether a Howard Government law forcing a waste dump on the Northern Territory should be repealed and sat in Alice Springs today.
People from communities near the Mount Everard, Harts Range and Muckaty sites protested outside the inquiry before traditional owners appeared.
Kathleen Martin from the Mount Everard site near Alice Springs told the senators she would be failing her family if a dump was built on her country.
"My grandfather's stories goes right along that hill in the form of a kangaroo and I do not want to see that site denigrated in any way at all, because I am responsible for the safety and the upkeep of that land," she said.
A Senate committee is investigating whether a Howard Government law forcing a waste dump on the Northern Territory should be repealed and sat in Alice Springs today.
People from communities near the Mount Everard, Harts Range and Muckaty sites protested outside the inquiry before traditional owners appeared.
Kathleen Martin from the Mount Everard site near Alice Springs told the senators she would be failing her family if a dump was built on her country.
"My grandfather's stories goes right along that hill in the form of a kangaroo and I do not want to see that site denigrated in any way at all, because I am responsible for the safety and the upkeep of that land," she said.