In 2002, Scott Ludlam (Western Australian Greens Senator) and ANAWA created the Australian map poster highlighting nuclear sites. Glenn has teamed up with Australia’s nuclear-free groups with the support of Scott Ludlam to re-release the nuclear map project. Most of the australianmap.net entries were written by one man, Jim Green, national nuclear campaigner with Friends of the Earth. Nectaria Calan wrote some of the South Australian entries (Beverley North, Beverley Four Mile, Oban, and Samphire). The Sustainable Energy and Anti-Uranium Service (SEA-US) material produced by the infamous Dr Gavin Mudd in the 1990s was a major resource (as was Dr Mudd’s Monash University webpage). Mudd publications were filled with misinformation, especially in the hydrogeological interpretations of groundwater flow in and around in situ mining operations.
Jacob Grech provided information on the U.S. military bases and ‘joint facilities’ in Australia. The group is now working on other map-based issues such as pesticides and coal.
Note by I2M Web Portal Editors: The above groups have committed a major disservice to Australia over the years by inhibiting the development of uranium mining and nuclear power in Australia. Like the anti-nuclear groups in other parts of the world, their irrational opposition is based on bad information contributed by publicity/money seeking individuals with the bare minimum training on the subjects related to hydrogeology, uranium genesis, exploration, mining and processing. The pros and cons of the uranium mining and the nuclear power will not be debated here (numerous other sources of information are available for that (here)), but suffice it to state here that Australia would have benefited from the groups' support rather than their opposition based on weak arguments and little data. There is always a need to have strict, but rational, regulations on mining projects developing any commodity, but especially uranium mining. Although groundwater migrates very slowly in the porous media of sandstones, there has never been a recorded incident of groundwater contamination attributed to in situ mining in Texas or elsewhere in the U.S. Fear mongering of radiation is the primary threat (followed by threats of groundwater contamination and anti-industry/anti-government manipulations) used by such groups to stimulate their members to pay their yearly dues to such groups, especially to those like the FOE, whose objectives are to block and impede natural resource development everywhere.
For examples of the bias presented by theses groups and by the local news media who pander to the local and national populations, see (here).
Mudd's publications illustrate his emphasis on obstructionism as opposed to contributing good science in developing Australia's natural resources, especially concerning uranium in situ mining (here).
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