Debate over the Coalition’s announcement of its plan for nuclear power plant sites will heat up. Follow today’s news headlines live
Energy minister Chris Bowen has written an op-ed for the AFR where he makes his views on the Coalition’s nuclear gambit clear:
The Coalition are clear in their aims. The alternative Deputy Prime Minister boasts that they will impose a cap on renewable energy investment and engineer a pause in renewables. His promise to rip up offshore wind contracts is an attack on international investment and the local communities that will rely on this energy to power industry and keep jobs.
It’s hard to think of a bigger potential act of economic self harm.
Dutton, like Abbott, will do everything he can to de-legitimise renewables and stand in the way of their use as the remedy nature has given us to underwrite our life on Earth.
Only the most wicked and cynical of individuals would foist such a blight on an earnest community like Australia.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/live/2024/jun/24/australia-politics-live-parliaments-winter-session-to-be-ground-zero-for-nuclear-debate
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