Australia’s climate wars are cranking back up to full power,as Opposition Leader Peter Dutton mounts a challenge to Labor’s ambitious renewable energy agenda.
The Coalition’s blinkered vision and political gamesmanship would see us squander this great country’s unparalleled natural advantage.
The Coalition has floated the idea of building nuclear power stations on retired coal station sites,possibly including Collie’s,as a solution to energy woes.
Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest has slammed the Coalition for advocating nuclear energy as the way to modernise the electricity grid as an exclusive survey reveals that 36 per cent of voters support its use.
The Coalition is pushing the prospect of nuclear energy in old coal-mining towns. But do Victorians actually want them and are they worth the cost?
The opposition leader is picking a fight with the government over energy policy,putting nuclear at the centre of the debate.
At the COP28 climate talks in Dubai there was a push by some to use nuclear power as a clean energy option,but critics say it’s too expensive and will take too long to build to make a difference in reducing carbon emissions.
The nation’s top science agency concludes that fossil fuels and emerging nuclear technology cannot produce electricity as cheaply as wind and solar farms.
Speaking in Sydney,the former British PM delivered a rousing defence of the West but criticised its habit of “cancelling freedom of expression in the name of wokery”.
A Coalition government would sign a pledge to triple nuclear energy output at its first global COP talks and overturn the Australian nuclear energy moratorium,its energy spokesman said.
Climate Change and Energy Minister Chris Bowen says the nation’s climate goals will extend beyond its renewable energy ambitions to other sectors of the economy.