Zack
Scomo is facing an election in about 6 months and has ratings on the wrong side of the s-bend and if either party even hinted at Aus' going nuclear they would be flushed. The electorate just isn't in anyway primed to think about nuclear power and that situation goes back beyond the Hawke Government's '3 mines' policy. A 20 second think about that policy leaves anyone but the willfully ignorant shaking their head. If Labor then had any serious misgivings it would have been a No Mines policy but that would simply beggar belief, so the great political ploy of avoiding the issue was applied.
Both parties have to win the coal electorates, and the inner city swinging seats to stand any chance. The coal electorates are straight forward; the inner city seats have to have the issues explained and put simply, neither party has the time before the election. And both so desperately want to get elected, stuff all the facts, just get my name in history, is The Policy.
The elephant in the room, coal, is our biggest polluter and Europe is proving that wind and solar just can't meet the 24/7/365 needs of serious industries. Batteries, Batteries we hear; well the mega batteries in Australia are primarily there to stabilize the grid and are years, if ever, from being able to store the Gws required by large cities and their industries.
The pollies avoid all those issues, in fact they don't even have 'jatz crackers' to explain to the inner city electorates that buying an electric car seriously increases the CO2 emissions. WTF? Well the average electric car is actually charged by a majority of coal, unless you live in Tassie. And coal, the sorry fact is, far more polluting than petrol.
So what the pollies are not saying, now before the election, will have to be faced fairly soon after the election, regardless of who wins. Except of course by the willfully ignorant Green church. That is, to get anywhere near our 2050 CO2 obligations coal has to substantially reduced and the only foreseeable option in the next 30 years is nuclear.
Bottom line don't fret about what the political so called leaders are saying, things have to change. But as has been pointed out, in the mean time our uranium markets are all overseas.
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