About 25 participants in the 2015 Friends of the Earth Radioactive Tour farewelled a chilly Dubbo on Wednesday morning after hosting a "fiery" meeting the night before.
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An estimated 30 people, including tour participants and Dubbo residents, gathered at the Dubbo Scout Hall where Alkane Resources' Dubbo Zirconia Project (DZP) was a hot topic.
The company's general manager NSW Mike Sutherland turned out to answer questions.
In the crowd were Greens NSW Senator Lee Rhiannon and the party's unsuccessful candidate for the seat of Dubbo at this year's state election, Matt Parmeter.
The 25th tour includes 10 stops across 13 days with NSW sites on the itinerary for the first time.
They include "Australia's one and only nuclear research reactor" at Lucas Heights and the Blue Mountains "targeted as a transport corridor for nuclear waste over the years".
The tour headed to Broken Hill after participants paraded signs in Macquarie Street.
Spokesman Dr Jim Green said across the years it had "exposed thousands of Australians first-hand to the environmental and social impacts of the nuclear industry".
He said the tour had come to Dubbo for the first time to "learn about the local proposed zirconium rare earths mine", approved by the Independent Planning Assessment Commission in May.
