The Wilderness Society launches new anti-nuclear TV Ad

The Wilderness Society has launched a new advertisement on YouTube and television to campaign against a nuclear power industry in Australia.

The advertisement outlines plans the Federal Government is pushing to establish a nuclear power industry, international radioactive waste dump and nuclear fuel production and reprocessing plants in Australia.

The advertisement will air on television initially in South East Queensland. A study by The Australia Institute has shown that nearby Bribie Island would be a suitable nuclear power plant site if the 25 plants proposed in the Switkowski Report and backed by the Federal Government were to go ahead. Bribie Island residents are strongly opposed to the idea that a nuclear power station could be built in their local community.

The Wilderness Society's National Campaign Director Alec Marr said that the Federal Government had been pushing an agenda for a full blown nuclear industry in Australia.

“As well as the Federal Government backing the idea of 25 nuclear power plants on our Eastern seaboard, the Liberal Party this year unanimously endorsed establishing the entire nuclear fuel cycle in Australia, including an international nuclear waste dump,” said Mr. Marr.

“Nuclear power produces radioactive waste that is toxic for hundreds of thousands of years. After 50 years of the industry globally, there is no proven method to safely dispose of highly toxic radioactive waste anywhere in the world.”

“The majority of Australians want clean, safe renewable energy solutions to climate change. Nuclear power is the wrong answer to climate change.

“The Wilderness Society is campaigning nationally in communities that will potentially be affected by the Federal Government’s nuclear plans.

“We are calling on all federal candidates to rule out nuclear power and an international nuclear waste dump in Australia before this year’s election."