Both Sydney and Brisbane got multiple dumpings most recently of a characteristic orangey-red dust well known for the Aussie outback desert dust and one that is very familiar to anyone who has ever lived or spent time in Kalgoorlie. However these sands in particular came from The Uranium Mines Tailings dam and region near Woomera and Maralinga Atomic testing ranges in South Australia. So despite all the official findings what ever the outcome be assured that we might not be getting all the evidence.
Radioactive lives of dusts dont dissipate quickly, in fact 4.5 million years is an average time for a radioactive sand to cool down.......
and start its half life
THE Sands of Woomera and Maralinga reach Woollomolloo and Bennelong Point
FOREVER ARCHIVED It was known by Green Hippy groups in the 80's that every capitol city in Australia was getting dumped on EVERYDAY regardless from radioactive fallout from the outback desert ATOMIC tests in the 1950'sat the requests of the BRITISH Govt. and Military.
HERES What World Daily Said:
Environmentalists have raised concerns that another giant dust storm blowing its way across eastern Australia may contain radioactive particles. It is argued that sediment whipped up from Australia's centre may be laced with material from a uraniummine. Scientists have played down concerns, saying there is little to worry about. Last Wednesday Sydney and Brisbane bore witness to their biggest dust storm in 70 years. Both were shrouded in red dust blown in from the desert...
Initial estimates said the dust would blow out to sea as in this News caption graphic:
However recent reports show VERY CLEARLY the sand has been blown all the way to New Zealand coastal towns and viallages
The dust settling on NEW ZEALAND is being independently tested and results will be very interesting considering this radiograph taken of the radiation levels of the dust by a NASA satellite...
Now out in the outback of AUSTRALIA the wild country... Its not unusual to get a dust storm or two...
Usually though these sands are from the desert, not from a missle testing range, an Atomic warhead range from the 1950's, or from a Uranium tailings dam.
Future storms may contain radioactive dust, if mine proposal goes ahead—Environmentalist
An Australian documentary maker says that future dust storms in the country may contain radioactive materials, if the mining company BHP Billiton’s proposal to turn a uranium mine into an open-cut mine goes ahead.
David Bradbury, a renowned filmmaker and environmental activist, who has made four documentaries on nuclear issues, says an environmental impact study suggest that about 70 million tons of radioactive tailing would be deposited at South Australia’s Olympic Dam uranium mine grounds each year.
The tailings are contaminated with alpha radiation, he says, which is proven to be carcinogenic to all animals, including humans.
“My grave concern is that with the open-cut mine expansion that BHP Billiton wants permission from state and federal governments to go ahead with, that the radioactive tailings left behind will blow over the eastern coast centres of the most populated cities of Australia,” he said.
Bradbury concerns came amid last Wednesday worst ever dust storm in the Sydney and Brisbane areas as red dust blown in from the outback shrouded the region, causing problems for people, especially those with asthma, and others with heart and lung conditions.
“[Since] the dust storms… originated from Woomera, and which is right next door to the Olympic Dam mine at Roxby Downs, these [storms] could blow those tailings across the face of Australia,” said Bradbury.
However, Australian scientists are playing down fears, assuring the public that there is nothing to worry about [sic.]
Barry Noller an Associate Professor from the University of Queensland, whose research projects include Risk Assessment of Mined Land, was quoted as saying that most of the particles from the uranium mines in the outback are simply too heavy to be carried by the wind over long distances.
“In a big dust storm, the dust is not going to come from one isolated site, it is going to be mixed in with dust from a [wide] area and diluted considerably,” said Noller.
FEWW Comments:
Come again? What if the storms were stronger and blew more sand more frequently, say, twice more, perhaps five times, or ten time as much every year? The recent atmospheric trends and new patterns set by climate change certainly suggest such extreme scenarios as highly probable!
That’s the most ridiculous comment an Associate Professor could possibly make, even one from the University of Queensland, without quantifying the extent of the problem. The stronger the storms the more dust they carry over populated areas, and with it goes more of the heavier particles.
Here’s what the Aussies, even their corporate media, should demand to know:
How much stronger must the storms be, and how frequently must they below before they pose, (i) some risk, (ii) significant risk to the public health, threatening human and animal well being?
Should this professor make similarly stupid, biased and unqualified remarks again, the Moderators will have to investigate his role and function as a government scientist with regulatory bias.
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: 100 kph winds whipped up heavy dust storms followed by severe thunderstorms in Sydney and much of New South Wales last night, media reported.
Road traffic slowed down to a crawl, ferries canceled, flights diverted or canceled as dust storm shrouded Sydney, and suffocating haze forced the residents to stay indoors.
Reuters: “This is unprecedented. We are seeing earth, wind and fire together,” said Dick Whitaker from The Weather Channel.
Australia is the driest inhabited continent on earth, and the NSW state government recently cut the state’s 2009/10 wheat crop estimate by 20 percent because of hot, dry weather across the grain belt.
The country is one of the most vulnerable nations to climate change, but also the world’s biggest greenhouse gas emitter per capita as it relies on coal-fired power stations for the bulk of its electricity.
Red dust and gale force winds have severely disrupted flights into and out of Sydney
Karen from Sydney’s inner western suburb of Dulwich Hill said she woke up to find the red dust had covered her floors and birds had been blown out of their nests.
“It did feel like Armageddon because when I was in the kitchen looking out the skylight, there was this red, red glow coming through,” Karen told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.
“In the south, where there are showers, people will find it is falling as mud this morning, but that will help clear the dust from the air,” said the BOM spokeswoman.
Associated Press: Sydney’s fiery dawn was caused by the sun hitting a blanket of dust that was whipped up by wild weather in parched areas of the New South Wales outback.
An enhanced colour satellite image shows the dust storm covering over eastern Australia in this handout picture dated September 23, 2009. REUTERS/Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology/Handout
Australia ‘uranium’ dust concernsBy Phil Mercer BBC News, Sydney 28 September 2009
Environmentalists have raised concerns that another giant dust storm blowing its way across eastern Australia may contain radioactive particles.
It is argued that sediment whipped up from Australia’s centre may be laced with material from a uranium mine.
Scientists have played down concerns, saying there is little to worry about.
Last Wednesday Sydney and Brisbane bore witness to their biggest dust storm in 70 years. Both were shrouded in red dust blown in from the desert outback.
The massive clouds of dust that choked heavily populated parts of Australia have caused problems for people with asthma, as well as those with heart and lung conditions.
But some environmental campaigners believe that the dry, metallic-tasting sediment could threaten the health of millions of other Australians.
David Bradbury, a renowned filmmaker and activist, claims the haze that engulfed some of the country’s biggest cities in the past week contains radioactive grains – or tailings – carried on gale force winds from a mine in the South Australian desert.
“Given the dust storms… which [the] news said originated from Woomera, and which is right next door to the Olympic Dam mine at Roxby Downs, these [storms] could blow those tailings across the face of Australia,” Mr Bradbury asserted.
People across NSW and Queensland awoke last week to a Mars like scene
Environmentalists have raised concerns that another giant dust storm blowing its way across eastern Australia may contain radioactive particles.
It is argued that sediment whipped up from Australia's centre may be laced with material from a uranium mine.
Scientists have played down concerns, saying there is little to worry about.
Last Wednesday Sydney and Brisbane bore witness to their biggest dust storm in 70 years. Both were shrouded in red dust blown in from the desert outback.
The massive clouds of dust that choked heavily populated parts of Australia have caused problems for people with asthma, as well as those with heart and lung conditions.
"I thought the whole city was on fire, it was just so red"
But some environmental campaigners believe that the dry, metallic-tasting sediment could threaten the health of millions of other Australians.
David Bradbury, a renowned filmmaker and activist, claims the haze that engulfed some of the country's biggest cities in the past week contains radioactive grains - or tailings - carried on gale force winds from a mine in the South Australian desert.
"Given the dust storms... which [the] news said originated from Woomera, and which is right next door to the Olympic Dam mine at Roxby Downs, these [storms] could blow those tailings across the face of Australia," Mr Bradbury asserted.
Mining companies have stressed that dust levels are carefully monitored, while the health concerns have been dismissed by a senior environmental toxicologist.
Barry Noller from the University of Queensland says that many of the particles from mines in the outback are simply too heavy to be carried by the wind over long distances.
"In a big dust storm, the dust is not going to come from one isolated site, it is going to be mixed in with dust from a [wide] area and diluted considerably," Mr Noller said.
The latest murky haze that spread over parts of Queensland at the weekend is dissipating and weather forecasters say it should soon start to move out to sea.
A TEAM of Australian scientists are analysing the dust that has engulfed eastern Australia this week to see whether it is dangerous.
The dust storm is believed to have originated around Woomera in outback South Australia near the massive Olympic Dam uranium mine, prompting fears it was radioactive and dangerous.
Climatologist Professor Nigel Tapper, from Melbourne's Monash University, played down the risks to humans but said the dust might threaten important eco-systems such as the Great Barrier Reef.
"Certainly the dust storm could have potentially come from those outback areas, we believe it has mainly come from dry lake and creek beds and elsewhere in the Lake Eyre basin," he said.
"That (radioactive) stuff has been spread around over a long time so I would not have thought there would be much of an issue around that.
"The main concern is over fine dust that goes right into the lungs triggering asthma and other respiratory problems."
The scientists were analysing dust that had been blown 2150km to New Zealand and "fingerprinting" it, and its minerals, to find out where it came from and if it was a threat to the Coral Sea and agriculture.
Although it is not unusual for smoke particles to cross the Tasman, meteorologists said the arrival of Australian dust was a rare occurrence.
Dust blown from Africa is believed to have similarly damaged coral reefs in the Caribbean, Prof Tapper said.
"Our preliminary tests show materials are getting there and we have identified where it has come from but the biologists will look at the microbes and bacteria there and if it is causing impacts," he said.
"The coral reef is already affected by El Nino (warmer ocean), if it quickly becomes cool or hot and all sorts of such as run-off and different star fish."
Academy Award nominated documentary maker David Bradbury, who has made films about nuclear power, warned about the risks from radioactive dust near the Olympic mine yesterday.
Australian scientist Peter Cosier has also claimed poor land management had made Australia less resistant to dust storms, with another event predicted to hit Sydney this weekend and the drought being blamed for the dust.
The dust storm has been recorded as breaking air particle concentration levels and reaching 15,400 micrograms per cubic metre of air. Normal days register up to 20 micrograms and bushfires generate 500 micrograms.
Meteorologist Philip Duncan of the WeatherWatch website said orange dust falls had been reported in the North Island districts of Auckland, Northland, Waikato, Bay of Plenty and Taranaki.
It was clearly visible where it landed, particularly on car windows.
"It arrived yesterday afternoon but was caught up in the rain and cloud associated with the front. Now that the skies are clearing it's quite evident," Mr Duncan said yesterday.
A Taranaki resident told the website the dust was so thick at the school where he worked it would not wash away in heavy showers.
A storm which blew in from the Australian outback blanketed Sydney in a layer of orange dust. Here, residents describe the bizarre and frightening scene.
Tanya Ferguson said the dust was the weirdest thing she had seen in her life, turning the city into a scene from another planet.
"It was like being on Mars," she told the BBC News website.
"I haven't been there, obviously, but I imagine that's what the sky would look like."
It was like being in the outback, but it was right here in the city
She said she woke to a massive gust of wind blowing through her windows early in the morning.
"The whole room was completely orange. I couldn't believe my eyes," she said.
Ms Ferguson said she initially thought there was a bush fire. When she finally decided to venture outside, she said the entire city was covered in a film of orange dust.
"All the cars are just orange - and the orange was so intense," she said by phone from Sydney, where she has lived for the past six years.
"It was like being in the outback, but it was right here in the city."
Ms Ferguson said the sky was overcast and it was very dusty, making her sneeze a lot.
Public transport was disrupted and the roads were clogged as drivers struggled in the difficult conditions, but she said some people went to their jobs, and she saw a few residents wearing face masks.
By evening, Ms Ferguson said there were blue skies over Sydney and that it was returning to a normal day.
'Pink until noon'
Fellow Sydneysider Nick Beaugeard said his four young children were really frightened when they woke up on Wednesday morning.
"There was a really red glow inside the house, really crimson" he said. "It looked like the end of the world."
It was like driving through a pea soup of fog, except it was bright red
Nick Beaugeard
After the initial shock, he said the children got really excited and went off to school where they said it was "pink until noon".
Mr Beaugeard - who moved to Australia from the UK in 1998 - had to drive to work from the Northern Beaches area because the ferries were closed.
"It was like driving through a pea soup of fog," he said, "except it was bright red".
He said the lights looked blue because it was so red outside.
Mr Beaugeard said his wife - who is an asthmatic - was fine despite the blanket of dust and fog.
"She went out with a scarf over her mouth and she came back without it," he said.
He said the dust left everyone with a dry mouth, and a really gritty taste, but caused no breathing problems for his wife.
'Armageddon'
Andrew Hawkins, who lives in Northmead, about 20km from the centre of Sydney, says he was scared at first because it looked like the end of the world.
"This morning's dust storm was unbelievable… It was like waking up to see that Armageddon is upon us," he wrote in.
Pictures fail to capture the eerie nature of the scene which surrounded us this morning
Andrew Hawkins
Mr Hawkins said he thought his eyes were playing up, or that there had been a nuclear explosion or a bush fire.
He described an ethereal scene of the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House as he rode the train to work.
"To see a city of such beauty shrouded in red, was a sight which cannot be described - even pictures fail to capture the eerie nature of the scene which surrounded us this morning," Mr Hawkins added.
Another Sydney resident, Kirsty Ainsworth, said it was like being in a film.
"It was really, really bizarre. It was actually like being in a movie - the Day After Tomorrow or Armageddon," she said.
Ms Ainsworth said there had been storm warnings on Monday and Tuesday, but the dust storm took everybody by surprise.
"It came out of nowhere," she said, adding that visibility had improved enough for her to make it to work by around 0830 local time.
"Everybody's cars were caked in orange dust, and there's still sand everywhere," she said.
A visitor takes pictures in front of the Sydney Opera House during Wednesday's dust storm.(Rob Griffith/Associated Press)
A giant cloud of red dust has settled over Australia's largest city, closing the country's largest airport and prompting a spike in emergency calls.
The dust cloud settled over about a dozen towns and cities in two states on Wednesday as strong winds snatched up red topsoil in the country's dry interior and carried it hundreds of kilometres east.
The cloud of Outback grit swept into Sydney, casting the city under an orange glow, and blowing into the Pacific Ocean.
"It did feel like Armageddon, because when I was in the kitchen looking out the skylight, there was this red glow coming through," Sydney resident Karen told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.
10 dry years
Australia's weather bureau said the dust storm is among the worst to hit the country since the 1940s.
Sydney's central business district is seen at 6:30 a.m., top, and
12:45 p.m. Wednesday as a dust storm swept through the city.(Tim Wimborne/Reuters)
"These dust storms are some of the largest in the last 70 years," said Nigel Tapper, an environmental scientist at Monash University. "Ten very dry years over inland southern Australia and very strong westerlies have conspired to produce these storms."
International flights were diverted from Sydney to other airports and some domestic flights were cancelled due to unsafe visibility. Passenger ferries around the city were also halted for safety reasons.
Ambulance services in the city reported about 250 emergency calls from people experiencing breathing difficulties. People with asthma or heart or lung diseases were urged not to go outside and to keep their medicine inhalers handy.
Officials reported that the dust set off smoke alarms in some buildings in the city's business district. The conditions also forced some construction projects to be temporarily halted.
Drivers were being warned to use caution on area roads.
Record particle pollution
The particle pollution in Sydney hit a record since levels began to be recorded in 1970 because of the dust, officials said.
Readings in the city were showing up to 15,500 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic metre, said New South Wales Environment Department atmospheric manager Chris Eiser. A normal reading on a clear day is between 10-20 micrograms, he said.
Though much of the dust in Sydney had settled by the afternoon, officials reported the grit was being blown farther north into Queensland and the capital of Brisbane was falling under its debris by early evening.
In the Outback, officials reported that some towns were under a complete blackout on Wedneday due to the dust storms. Some mines in the region have been forced to shut down until the storms settled.
The dust storms are expected to continue into Thursday, with the red dust expected to reach New Zealand about 2,220 kilometres away.
University of Queensland climatologist Samuel Marx told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. a storm of this size can move between eight and 40 million tonnes of dust.
The Bureau of Meteorology said a big cold front in New South Wales caused severe thunderstorms and gale-force winds, which whipped up the dust from inland and spread it across Australia's most populous state. Winds of more than 100 km/h also fanned bushfires in the state.
"We've got a combination of factors which have been building for 10 months already — floods, droughts and strong winds," Craig Strong, an official with DustWatch at Griffith University in Queensland, told Reuters.
Sydney residents have begun cleaning up their city, after a huge outback dust storm blew tonnes of soil into the Australian capital on Wednesday. Skip related content
City council workers have been washing pavements, benches and garbage bins with pressured water and sweeping machines, and there have been long queues of cars at the car wash.
"More than a hundred, yes... if it is like this all day maybe we will do three or four hundred cars today," said the manager at a Sydney car wash.
A huge outback dust storm swept eastern Australia and blanketed Sydney, disrupting transport, forcing people indoors and stripping thousands of tonnes of valuable farmland topsoil.
By noon on Wednesday the storm, carrying an estimated five million tonnes of dust, had spread to the southern part of Australia's tropical state of Queensland, including its state capital Brisbane.
Dust storms in Australia are not unusual, but are usually restricted to inland areas except during widespread drought, when they can reach the coast.
The storm continues to move further north of the country.
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