A southern Queensland community is demanding to be removed from the federal government’s shortlist of potential nuclear waste dump sites.
Locals at Oman Ama, west of Warwick, have written to energy and resources minister Josh Frydenberg asking to be taken off the list of six potential sites to store “low to intermediate” nuclear waste.
The Friends of Omanama group said what it called the federal government’s “indoctrination program” had not convinced locals to support the proposal.
It said the group had unanimously rejected the proposal “in its entirety” at a meeting on 21 December.
“Accordingly, we would request that there be no further such meetings sponsored by your department. There is an element of circularity and, in view of the above rejection resolution, we see this as a waste of taxpayer funds.”
The group has also written to the landholder asking for them to withdraw their application to be a nuclear waste dump site “in the interests of community harmony”.
The six sites shortlisted were chosen from 28 voluntarily nominated across Australia and will be whittled down to one or two next year following public consultation.
Location of the six proposed sites
