Friends of the Earth Australia Media Release
Friends of the Earth (FoE) welcomes the Interim Report released by the House Select Committee on Nuclear Energy.
The Interim Report states that nuclear power “cannot be deployed in time to support Australia’s critical energy transition targets and climate commitments, or to assist the coal workforce and communities in their transition away from the coal industry.” It warns that “taxpayer funding of an uncertain nuclear venture during a cost-of-living crisis is a significant risk.”
In ‘Additional Comments’ to the Committee’s report, Kooyong MP Dr. Monique Ryan concludes that an “ongoing pursuit of nuclear energy options will only perpetuate and increase Australia’s reliance on coal and gas”.
FoE Australia’s national nuclear campaigner Dr. Jim Green said:
“The House Select Committee has found that nuclear power is too expensive and too slow. The Coalition hid its bogus economic costings until the Committee’s work was nearly complete, but the absurdity of those costings has now been thoroughly exposed.
“The simple fact is that recent reactor projects in the US, the UK and France have cost A$27-45 billion per reactor ‒ several times higher than the Coalition’s absurd assumption. No amount of sophistry and creative accounting changes the plain facts.
“This week the Climate Change Authority released a detailed analysis concluding that the Coalition’s energy plan would result in an additional two billion tonnes of greenhouse emissions. The Coalition’s response was to threaten to sack the Authority’s chair Matt Kean (a former NSW Liberal energy minister and treasurer) and to scrap the Authority just as a previous Coalition government defunded the independent Climate Commission and tried to kill off the Climate Change Authority and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency.
“The threat to the independent, expert Climate Change Authority is pure thuggery, as is Peter Dutton’s threat to use compulsory acquisition laws to acquire sites to build nuclear reactors from energy companies that are openly critical of the Coalition’s nuclear plan. Those companies are planning their exit from coal and its replacement with renewables and storage projects.
“The Dutton Coalition’s threat to override state governments and state laws is nuclear thuggery. And the threat to override community opposition is nuclear thuggery. Peter Dutton says it is in “the national interest to proceed” with nuclear reactors even in the face of adamant public opposition.
“The Dutton Coalition’s all-embracing nuclear thuggery stands in stark contrast to shadow energy minister Ted O’Brien’s comments in 2019 that a future government should only proceed with nuclear power on the condition that it make ‘a commitment to community consent as a condition of approval for any nuclear power or nuclear waste disposal facility’.”
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“Nuclear Thuggery” sums it up very well.
And, why am I not surprised to read that any government agency who disagrees with Mutton, is under threat of closure?
Sounding more and more like trump the strump every day don’t you think…..
Nuclear Thuggery and Threats: Response to Interim Report of the House Select Committee on Nuclear Energy.
Last night I had listened to a report given from Professor Jeffery Sachs, he had reported to his audience of journalists and equal number of adult academics.
Pleased was the audience at the close of his presentation of facts unequivocal concerning the USA.
I found that his facts revealed, particularly on the USA Nuclear weapons strategy, as greatly revealing about the absolute idiocy in the highest levels of the US government Administration.
His topics for discussion was to bring forward the relative failures engaged in by the USA that has since reverberated across the entire world.
Do not make the mistake of ignoring this presentation By Professor Jeffery Sachs, with his insights into the US think tanks and about their disregard shown to the rest of of world.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD_KEFpuIro&list=LL
I repeat, do not ignore this internationally renowned
and respected proffessorial person, given that he has been delivering facts in his forthright manner concerning the shortcomings of the USA over the past 50 odd years.
Don’t forget Der Spuds Ted “Nookalearr Fizzicallist” O’Brien knows far more than a bunch of experts in the field of nuclear energy. So there…stick that up your reactor. Why, Ted almost finished looking the comic book “Nuclear for Dummies” before they ruined it for him by using words.
Dutton lies like a pig in shit, so do the rest of his rabble.We must vote for them according to the Sky foghorns and the rest of the Murdoch propaganda trash.
“God bless Sky News” said the Lying Rodent…says it all really.