THANK YOU FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE PETITON AGAINST THE SUSPENSION AND SILENCING OF CSIR'S DR ANTHONY TURTON. The Petition is now officially closed and will be handed over to CSIR on Monday the 8th of December 2008.

Environment.co.za supports many organisations and causes and we now resume an ongoing petition against the use of nuclear energy as a viable energy source for South Africa.

Last week Eskom announced it had decided to (sensibly) scrap going ahead with the Nuclear-1 programme, yet the Department of Minerals and Energy (DME) remains stubbornly committed to a nuclear policy for South Africa. Comments sent in against the DME's draft nuclear policy a year ago were simply ignored and most likely just shredded. Repeated requests to the DME on this issue have to this day been ignored and it continues to be apparent that the DME in combination with the highly secretive South African Nuclear Industry has it's own agenda and will do anything it pleases to make it a reality. The Eskom Nuclear-1 project has, according to sources, already wasted many Billions of Rands of taxpayers money with nothing to show for it whereas that money could have been better spent on renewable energy options which would already be operating and generating much needed power the nation.

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I am opposed to the use of Nuclear Energy as a power source for South Africa. I believe that the government should be investing into truly renewable energy options which do not pollute and create health risks for the citizens of South Africa. I am further opposed to South Africa reviving it's Uranium Enrichment programme and equally opposed to the multitude of Uranium mining operations and Uranium prospecting application springing up in every corner of South Africa. I am also opposed to South Africa importing radioactive nuclear waste from other countries when they have not even found a way of dealing with our own radioactive nuclear waste. :