Garrett is Gutless
In what is clearly a sign of what to expect from the Rudd Labor Government, Peter Garrett has just announced an expansion of uranium mining for South Australia’s Beverly mine. Mr Garrett owes his fame to his extensive history as the lead singer for Midnight Oil, a band that was for many the touchstone for sentiments against nuclear power and other environmental issues. In 1984 he was the lead candidate for the Nuclear Disarmament Party in the Australian Senate as well as a time as president of the Australian Conservation Foundation and Greenpeace board member. In 2007 he voted against an expansion of the uranium mining at the party’s national conference saying “I have very great concerns about the current fragile safety regimes and the porous nature of safeguards because of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s inadequate monitoring of safety issues.”
How betrayed are we all be feeling right now?
The Right must really be popping the champas right now as the pseudo lefties all over the country fall over themselves in a mad rush to pursue some historically right wing agendas, Iemma and the power sell off in NSW, Gillard and Rudd with John Howard’s education “reforms” and now Pete Garrett and an expanding uranium industry. It begs the obvious question of whether or not there is anyone with moral conviction actually in government. As for the Pete, obviously Nicholson didn’t realise just how far Garrett would go.
So as with Gunns, Mr Peter Garrett obviously is only too happy to accept the opinion of a select bunch of experts as to the consequences to the ENVIRONMENT of development proposals. The personal and instinctive responses that people feel on these subjects, and presumably Pete did share these feelings once upon a time (in a galaxy far far away), are irrelevant to a “professional” politician. I don’t share his view that ” (on the uranium mine) the proposal won’t produce any adverse significant impacts on matters of national environment significance” and I am sure plenty of other people who voted for Garrett and Labor agree. Nor of course is that any guarantee that there won’t be any adverse impact on the environment. Exxon showed us just how responsible corporations can be with regard to the environment.
He’s a piece of shit!
