Campaign Against Nuclear Energy
The Campaign Against Nuclear Energy (CANE) was founded on February 14, 1976 as a regional organization in Perth , Western Australia , by the Friends of the Earth Australia (FOEA). Other members of this organizational alliance were the Australian Conservation Foundation , Conservation Council of Western Australia and Campaign to Save Native Forests .
CANE opposed the development of nuclear power plants , particularly in Western Australia. She supported the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty , was against Australia's uranium mining and exports , the proliferation of nuclear weapons of mass destruction and against the stay of US ships in Australia that were armed with nuclear weapons. She also supported the initiative for local nuclear-weapon-free zones .
In 1976, the CANE initiated demonstrations at Perth Airport and Rockingham against the transport of US nuclear weapons through Australia. The first demonstration to the Parliament Building in Perth began in 1977 with around 600 people, expanded to 3,000 on Hiroshima Day and 10,000 in November. The Prime Minister Charles Court of Western Australia announced on June 15, 1979 that there are plans for nuclear power plants in Breton Bay 90 km north and in Wilbinga, 70 km north of Perth. As a result, CANE held a public meeting on July 4, 1979 in the Perth Town Hall .
CANE became a member of the Coalition for a Nuclear Free Australia (CNFA), an Australian alliance of 79 organizations from trade unions, anti-nuclear organizations, environmental organizations and the Friends of the Earth Australia . The foundation Women Against Nuclear Energy (WANE), which took place on April 21, 1980, was initiated from the Campaign Against Nuclear Energy and later led to the Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament .
When the Australian Labor Party won the national election in 1983 and refrained from building nuclear power plants, the idea prevailed that the Australian anti-nuclear movement and the ALP no longer needed another political platform. The regional movement Campaign Against Nuclear Energy began to disintegrate and ceased to exist as an organization in the late 1980s.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ The Woman's Australians Register. Women Against Nuclear Energy (WANE) (1980-) . Retrieved February 15, 2011
- ^ Brian Martin (1984): Strategy against nuclear power, Friends of the Earth in Canberra from 1984 . Retrieved February 15