Agree -tho I think no amount of consultation or knowledge about the facility or process - or even better signage (or landscaping) would have changed the minds of the people they interviewed. The bottom line was that the people interviewed didn’t want the facility anywhere near their properties - they just “want it gone”.
Agree -tho I think no amount of consultation or knowledge about the facility or process - or even better signage (or landscaping) would have changed the minds of the people they interviewed. The bottom line was that the people interviewed didn’t want the facility anywhere near their properties - they just “want it gone”.
That aside it’s still a huge consultation/communication /education/signage fail for at least two governments, MoH and MoD and the seemingly still confused council. The signage around automatic period product disposal units is clearer and more informative. Amazing that the MoH thought it could build this facility and no one would notice - or have the “audacity” to ask ‘WTF is going on?’ or that people would be satisfied with ‘National Security’ for an answer?
Add to this a council clerk who was able to access and copy the facility plans and then send them out (so much for NZ’s National Security), the guard going off script with a joke when asked what’s happening inside the building, and the mysterious ‘What IS going on here"‘? music and the clip becomes Men in Black Aotearoa.
Again the real issue is that sustainable, secure and monitored storage facilities for radio-active waste have been safely used internationally for decades, and - so far - these are the only alternative to dumping concrete drums-full of the stuff into the ocean - or, as has been seriously suggested, putting them into orbit.
Agree -tho I think no amount of consultation or knowledge about the facility or process - or even better signage (or landscaping) would have changed the minds of the people they interviewed. The bottom line was that the people interviewed didn’t want the facility anywhere near their properties - they just “want it gone”.
That aside it’s still a huge consultation/communication /education/signage fail for at least two governments, MoH and MoD and the seemingly still confused council. The signage around automatic period product disposal units is clearer and more informative. Amazing that the MoH thought it could build this facility and no one would notice - or have the “audacity” to ask ‘WTF is going on?’ or that people would be satisfied with ‘National Security’ for an answer?
Add to this a council clerk who was able to access and copy the facility plans and then send them out (so much for NZ’s National Security), the guard going off script with a joke when asked what’s happening inside the building, and the mysterious ‘What IS going on here"‘? music and the clip becomes Men in Black Aotearoa.
Again the real issue is that sustainable, secure and monitored storage facilities for radio-active waste have been safely used internationally for decades, and - so far - these are the only alternative to dumping concrete drums-full of the stuff into the ocean - or, as has been seriously suggested, putting them into orbit.