[Green-Activist] Nuclear Power in Queensland

[Anne Goddard]

Please consider putting pen to paper,  Now is the perfect time!

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to: ThePremier at premiers.qld.gov.au editorial at news-mail.com.au
letters at theaustralian.com.au
letters at smh.com.au
letters at theage.com.au
letters at smh.com.au

Sample letter (please edit the words to suit your style and make your letter
"original").
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Dear Premier Beattie (and Media),

Climate Change is upon us, and the need for true leadership and immediate
action to mitigate the dire consequences we all face is urgent.

I note the report issued on 26/10/06 by Roam Consulting, "Nuclear Power
Station" from your website which states "a nuclear station of nominal
1400MW, 10,000GWh/a sent out production would be expected to use about 1.26
times the water usage of the equivalent coal fired power station, or about
25Gl/a. The water source would need to be assured in at least a one in one
hundred year drought."


This demonstrates that wind, solar, biomass, geothermal and natural gas
powered plants where almost no water is used are a more viable alternative
to nuclear OR coal.

With the majority of our majour populations hugging the coast, the viability

of tidal and wave power generation must be thoroughly investigated
immediately.

"Renewables" will consume some 25,000 megalitres of water less per year for
1,400 megawatts of energy produced by a nuclear plant, and about 19,500
megalitres less than a coal-fired plant of similar size!

The projected water savings of renewables and natural gas must be costed in.

Nuclear plants' waste water damages the downstream environment and destroys
prime waterfront land while continually exposing the surrounding environment

to the danger of radioactive pollution and there remains no safe method of
storage for nuclear waste.


Ample reasons to steer away from both nuclear (and coal) energy supplies in
Queenslands future.

Yours sincerely