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No we're not. What's happening is, Labour(left wing) has invested a chunk of change in renewables, and the Liberals(right wing)(Owned by mining & gas & fossil
by Andaith 2y ago
No we're not. What's happening is, Labour(left wing) has invested a chunk of change in renewables, and the Liberals(right wing)(Owned by mining & gas & fossil fuel companies) wants to keep their owners fossil fuel gravy train rolling.
So the liberals have proposed "nuclear" as "renewable" while trash-talking solar & wind, then provided a very poorly thought out plan for how to get to nuclear.(I'm not joking, for example, their plan for a power plant in Adelaide is to put it where an old coal power plant was. However, it's been shut down, decommissioned, and the land re-zoned. Also, Adelaide meets about 100% of their energy use with cheaper renewables already and is too far from anywhere else to sell the surplus. Also South Australia has said they don't want any nuclear plants.)
The purpose of the nuclear plan is the small print "We'll defund solar & wind as nuclear is our preferred renewable energy, and then we'll invest 'tens of billions of dollars' into oil and gas and coal until nuclear is ready." It'll never be ready. They'll let every interest group & nimby have their say, and just keep funneling money to oil & gas & coal all the while.