Gindalbie nominates nuclear waste site
By Rachel Dally-Watkins 19 May, 2015 GINDALBIE METALS has nominated part of a pastoral station east of Geraldton, WA, for a proposed national radioactive waste management facility. The iron ore company, which holds a suit of tenements in the state’s Mid West region, including the Karara joint venture, nominated part of the 113,600 hectare Badja Station as a candidate site to store “intermediate level waste” and “low level waste created largely as a result of medical and other scientific procedures”. Gindalbie stated that it undertook a program of consultation with local communities and stakeholders prior to making the submission; however representatives from the Morawa Shire, which is about 70km from the site, claimed the proposal came as a surprise. “I…