Howard's march to Bush's nuclear tune dangerous: Greens
Australians ought to be shocked that Prime Minister John Howard has fallen into line behind US President George Bush in
advocating nuclear power and undermining the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), Australian Greens energy
spokesperson Senator Christine Milne said today.
"The Howard and Bush governments want to sell nuclear reactor technology and uranium to India, a non-signatory to the
NPT and which is already building a fast breeder reactor and has rejected international inspections," Senator Milne said
in Canberra.
"There is no doubt that a US nuclear reactor fuelled by Australian uranium would produce plutonium, which could be used
for Indian nuclear weapons.
"Making the world more dangerous is utter hypocrisy from the coalition of the willing who threaten Iran and then
facilitate India's own nuclear aspirations.
"Dressing up their uranium mining and nuclear trade agendas as measures to address climate change is disgraceful and
exposes the hollowness of their Asia Pacific climate pact.
"Nuclear power is too expensive and too slow to address climate change. Germany has rejected it, choosing instead to
invest in renewable energy, and so should we.
"Ten years of John Howard's 'me-tooism' is ten years too many."