Help protests - Qld food irradiation plant

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>Steritech Heavy Machinery and Fencing Expected

>Action MONDAY JUNE 17 & Tuesday June 18

>Lot 14, Potssium Street

>Deception Bay (within the Narnagba Industrial Estate)

>Queensland, Australia

>6:30 am on

>

>

>Work started on the nuclear irradiation plant on Narangba industrial

>estate last Wednesday. It was successfully stalled on Thursday morning by

>a small picket line across a road and a presence on site is currently

>being maintained with the help of locals, Sunshine Coasters, Brisbane-

>regionalites, Benny Zable and his barrels and the support of many

>interstate and overseas. It is expected that work will resume first thing

>Monday morning. If a strong presence is to be maintained on site and/or

>work is to be further delayed more people are needed to help.

>

>Anyone who can, please come to the site as early as possible from

>6.30am Monday morning (24 June) to join local residents in the opposition

>to this plant. (Transport from Narangba train station may be possible,

>leave a message at FoE and we can try to coordinate).

>

>No time to come to Narangba? Steritech has announced that the CONTRACTOR

>and BUILDER is STATHAM CONSTRUCTION - whose offices are in

>Wooloongabba. If you have time, why not contact then and encourage them

>to NOT BUILD THE PLANT!

>

>An organising meeting will be held in Narangba on Sunday afternoon =AD if

>you would like to attend please contact either Robin (EnuFF) or Bec (FoE)

>for details.

>

>Volunteers are also needed for ongoing campaign work. There are many

>different ways that people can be involved. To find out how you can help

>contact EnuFF on 0411 11 8737, or Friends of the Earth on 3846 5793.

>

>In Solidarity

>Bec and Robin

>

>STERITECH>Fri, 14 Jun 2002 23:17:25 +1000

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>>Hello Everyone, just a quick update on the Steritech saga. Today (Friday)

>the protesters sat on the Steritech site all day and this evening Bennie

>Zable and Robin are spending the night there as we have been informed that

>they will try to fence the property tomorrow (Saturday). It has been a

>pleasant protest and we have been getting a little media attention.

Ofcourse

>not enough. We need as many people to call at the site for some time each

>day. We have made a protest roster and if you would like to register your

>name for sometime please feel free to ring me on 3888 5287. This protest

>will be a rolling protest for sometime yet so we need lots of hands and

feet

>to turn up around there. There is a planning meeting to be held at 43

>McPhail Road Narangba on Sunday at 2 pm everyone welcome...stay for a cuppa

>also. We believe that things will pick up from Monday and escalate by

>Wednesday to a full on team of workers at the site. I will email again

>tomorrow night with an update.

Kind regards

Fran Jell

>PS Please pass this on to everyone you know because we need all the support

>and help we can get.