‘Casualty’ of The Voice: MP Calls for Court Decision on Nuclear Waste Site to Be Reviewed

Empty nuclear waste shipping containers sit in front of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near Carlsbad, N.M., on March 6, 2014. AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan

Liberal MP Rowan Ramsey is calling on the federal government to appeal a court decision to reject a nuclear waste disposal site in the remote area of Kimba.

In mid-July, the Federal Court of Australia overturned a decision by former Resources Minister Keith Pitt to give the go-ahead to build a facility at Napandee, near Kimba in South Australia.