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Australia: Northern Territory nuclear waste dump 'contravenes UN declaration'

2013-08-14 12:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Guardian: The government risks breaching an international agreement if it goes ahead with a controversial nuclear waste dump in a remote part of the Northern Territory, conservationists say, with Labor Senate candidate Nova Peris calling for the plan to be dropped. Conservationists claim that the Muckaty dump, near Tennant Creek, would be in contravention of the UN declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples, which states that nations must "ensure that no storage or disposal of hazardous materials shall...

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