SA: Olsen welcomes federal nuclear waste guarantee

AAP General News (Australia)
02-09-2001
SA: Olsen welcomes federal nuclear waste guarantee

ADELAIDE, Feb 9 AAP - South Australia's vehement opposition to a medium-level nuclear
waste dump was vindicated by a federal guarantee not to build the facility next to a low-level
dump, SA Premier John Olsen said today.

Mr Olsen welcomed assurances by the Federal Government that a medium-level dump would
not be co-located with a low-level facility likely to be established near Woomera in the
state's far north.

While the SA Opposition said today the federal guarantee could not be believed, Mr
Olsen said it was a step in the right …