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Cromarty campaigners lead celebrations on anti-nuclear campaign milestone moment; Black Isle group marks momentous landmark over United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons By Hector MacKenzie
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Updated: 13:35, 23 January 2021
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Judith McDonald: The only way to prevent these weapons of mass destruction being used is to get rid of them all together.
BELLS tolled in a Ross-shire town yesterday to mark a momentous occasion offering hope to peace campaigners battling the global scourge of nuclear weapons.
The initiative by Cromarty Peace Group dovetails with the United Nations Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (UNTPNW) coming into force, banning them in signatory countries and increasing pressure on others - including major world superpowers - to follow suit.
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Interestingly that article starts with a description of appallingly bad safety standards at a major petrochem site in the 1960 s. Yet remarkably everything has changed in the 50 years since; the events he describes are pretty much unthinkable in a developed country today.
In particular:
One day, Sherman was standing in a room, leaning over a large pipe to check a filter, when an operator in a distant control room mistakenly turned a knob, sending hot, almond-smelling, liquid chlorinated hydrocarbons coursing through the pipe, drenching him
I worked for decades in that control room, always aware that I could kill or main with a bad or unlucky decision. Yet the technology advanced dramatically, giving us tools and platforms that properly implemented, making incidents like the above orders of magnitude less likely. Organisations soon realised that investing in safety tech actually saved them cash, and in the past decade virtually every major new in
Australian Greens
The ACT Greens are today celebrating the commencement of the United Nations’ Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, calling on the Australian Government to pledge its support.
The Treaty renders nuclear weapons illegal under international law and is a major international milestone consistent with the Greens’ core value of peace and non-violence.
“For a progressive country with a proud history of leading humanitarian efforts, Australia’s continued relationship with uranium mining and the creation of nuclear weapons is unacceptable, and only brings us closer to the destruction of humanity and our natural world,” said Jo Clay, ACT Greens Member for Ginninderra.
Invercargill and Dunedin have been closed by floods once a decade or so.
Graeme 1.1.1
Large parts of Dunedin are below mean sea level, some around a metre. Invercargill is just above, but close enough that a flood combined with a high tide makes things pretty wet. Both suffer from being built on very weak ground, especially Invercargill, so both are never going to be more than they are now and unlikely to get much future investment.
It s not only airports that are at risk from sea level rise. The State Highway and railway going past Dunedin Airport are only slightly higher and just as at risk in many other places.