WA Labor reaffirms uranium mining ban
Western Australian Premier Geoff Gallop has exerted his authority on the state Labor party, forcing it to back his position against uranium mining.
Some Labor MPs had hoped to force the issue at the party's conference in Perth today, however under pressure, they withdrew a controversial motion at the last minute.
Their motion called for a working group to be established to look into future energy options, including uranium.
Instead, a motion carried, reaffirming the state government's ban on uranium mining.
Dr Gallop told the conference future generations should not be saddled with the expensive problem of disposing nuclear waste.
"And let us here in Western Australia play our role, however small it is, to keep the world on a path of sanity, to keep the world on a path where we solve the greenhouse problem without creating a massive radioactive problem, thankyou very much."
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