SOLAR NOT NUCLEAR - Community Picnic

1st November 2008
11am Araluen Park

*Information and ideas sharing
*Solar Baking
*Kids Activites
*Music

Bring some food and creative ideas to build the community campaign opposing uranium exploration and mining.

Organised by the Alice Springs Angela Pamela (ASAP) CollectiveContact: 8952 2011

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Alice Springs CAN stop the uranium mining on our doorstep
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Creative IT Industries Forum on 25 November

To be held on November 25
- Brochure: http://www.netgrrlhosting.com/forum.pdf


Please circulate through your networks.


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Environment Advisory Committee

The next meeting will be held in the Andy McNeill Room ASTC 5.30pm Monday Nov 3rd - the public is welcome to come watch the meeting and there is an agenda item where questions can be put from the public gallery.

ALICE SPRINGS TOWN COUNCIL
ENVIRONMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE
AGENDA FOR THE MEETING
TO BE HELD ON 3RD NOVEMBER 2008 AT 5.30PM - 7.30PM
IN THE ANDY McNEILL ROOM

1. WELCOME BY CHAIR ALD JANE CLARK

2. APOLOGIES

3. PUBLIC QUESTION TIME

4. GUEST SPEAKER

5. MINUTES OF PREVIOUS MEETING 8TH SEPTEMBER 2008
5.1 Business Arising

6. CHARTER
6.1 Committee quorum number (Half +1)

7. CITIES FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION
7.1 Solar Cities – Update report
7.2 Greenhouse emissions for Local Action Plan data breakdown – R Laan

8. WASTE MANAGEMENT
Status report - Landfill Management Plan – R Laan
Status report – Waste Minimisation Plan – R Laan
Cash for Cans – update – Greg Buxton

9. CYCLING COMMITTEE
Comment on 2005-10 National Bicycling Strategy - Greg Buxton
Update on DPI consultant review of cycle paths - Greg Buxton

10. GEOTHERMAL ENERGY

11. ROADMAP TO A DESERT SMART TOWN

12. WATER IN ALICE SPRINGS 2008 DVD AND Water Efficiency Program – Angela Day

13. OTHER BUSINESS

14. Next Meeting ----- MONDAY 2nd FEBRUARY 5009 - 5.30 - ANDY MCNEILL ROOM


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Recent media about Angela Pamela U-Mine

The Greens NT: www.nt.greens.org.au

ALP Central Australia position on AP
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2008/10/09/2386789.htm?site=alicesprings

The Angela pamela license to explore has been granted:
http://www.nt.gov.au/d/Minerals_Energy/news_media_archive_article.cfm?newsid=404&ws=1

No Alice U-Mine Facebook Group - Join Now: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20672761332

SBS program Living Black - episode from Wed 8th Oct : http://www20.sbs.com.au/podcasting/index.php?action=feeddetails&feedid=54

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Greens Urge Territorians to Keep Lobbying NTG

The Greens NT are urging Territorians to continue to lobby the NT Government to hear their concerns about uranium mining at Angela and Pamela deposits 21km from Alice Springs.

This was in response to The Department of Regional Development, Primary Industry, Fisheries and Resources (DRDPIFR) granting Cameco Australia and Paladin Energy Minerals an exploration licence over the Angela and Pamela uranium prospects in central Australia.

At a protest held on Sunday Greens Alderman Jane Clark said, "Central Australian leaders need to actively stand up and convey our opposition to this development. We have not received evidence that our water and air quality will be maintained at current levels despite requests by Alice Springs Town Council for the NT Government to supply this information. Spin and glossy leaflets from the potential mining companies do not go anywhere near addressing the seriousness and complexity of the issues that Alice Springs faces.

"The Tourism and Pastoral Industries are our major economic base and they will be adversely affected by uranium mining long before it starts. These industries are strong because of our clean healthy environment and once this image has been damaged, it will be very hard to re-establish."


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Greens and Friends Get Together Oct 12

We would love more people to get involved in the Greens in Alice Springs and for more people to be informed about issues affecting life in Central Australia. To encourage this we have decided to have a Green gathering every second month on the second Sunday of the month. This will be a social event with a time to meet other Greens members and learn more about a particular issue. The first one will be happening this Sunday (12th October):

Date: Sunday 12 October
Time: 5pm - 6pm
Venue: Telegraph Station
Focus Issue: Angela-Pamela exploration license - what happens now?
What to bring: drinks/snacks to eat and share, something to sit on

Kids, friends, non-members VERY welcome.

Hope to see you there!

on behalf of the Alice Springs Greens

Angela pamela license to explore granted Oct 3, 2008

The Angela pamela license to explore has been granted:
http://www.nt.gov.au/d/Minerals_Energy/news_media_archive_article.cfm?newsid=404&ws=1

PROTEST TODAY:

Chief Minister's office Alice Springs 5pm

PROTEST SUNDAY:

Flynn Church lawns 10.30am

Please text and email this message as widely as possible

regards,
Jane Clark

No Alice U-Mine: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=20672761332

Letter to Australian and NT News Oct 2 2008

The proposed Uranium exploration license under consideration at Angela deposit 21km from Alice Springs will not in any way benefit our town. The proposed mining lease is located directly over the top of the artesian water supply for the town and there is no alternative water source.

Mining companies from the other side of the globe have been attracted to what is under the ground, not to Alice Springs as a wonderful destination to visit, work and live. They have no interest in preserving our quality of life or our existing industries.

I ask people to seriously consider the unresolved environmental damage caused by uranium mining at several locations in Canada. No amount of spin can cover what has happened there, and the lack of will to fix the problems. Why should they bother when they can come to another location like Alice Springs, and plunder there?

We need to have our water catchment area protected from uranium exploration - which is, after all, uranium mining on a smaller scale. Let's pull together and call for protection of the water catchment area of Alice Springs. It is the lifeblood of Alice and there is no alternative water source.