Australia news live: Coalition names proposed sites for nuclear reactors as Chalmers criticises ‘dumbest policy ever’
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"Peter Dutton has called a press conference for 10am, so it is all official – nuclear is go.

The Coalition teleconference meeting has wrapped up, and the seven sites have been named and it is as we thought: Collie in Western Australia, Mt Piper and Liddell in New South Wales, Callide and Tarong in Queensland, Northern Energy in South Australia and Loy Yang in Victoria."

"There are already issues being identified with the sites – first, the sites would need to be purchased from private operators. There will need to be some pretty major changes to legislation, both state and federally. The Queensland LNP, as recently as yesterday, said it would not lift the nuclear ban for the state, which is a problem given two Queensland reactor sites have been identified by Dutton’s team.

Tarong in Queensland is a particular issue as it doesn’t have a secure water source. In 2006, then-premier Peter Beattie had to propose a waste water pipeline as a last ditch measure to save the plant during a drought."

  • Mountaineer@aussie.zoneEnglish
    17·
    10 days ago

    Let me paraphrase the LNP here:
    “Private companies have researched Nuclear and decided it’s not cost effective.”
    “Financial institutions have investigated Nuclear and decided they WILL NOT INVEST.”
    “But our financial backers at the Mineral Council and the private companies dragging the last of the profit out of their end of life coal power stations are insisting that we continue with our current market AS LONG AS POSSIBLE, so we’ve decided to announce an extremely long term plan, to scare private investment out of renewables short term.”
    “Don’t worry, between NIMBYs in the target areas, laws surrounding nuclear energy, lack of local expertise and the general unsuitability of Nuclear for our widely dispersed yet small population, we won’t actually build more than one of these things.”
    “Jokes on them, we were only pretending to be retarded.”

  • zik@aussie.zone
    9·
    10 days ago

    Or rather they’ve decided what areas they’ll mess around for years while nothing gets done until this farce finally gets canned.

    • rainynight65@feddit.deOPEnglish
      12·
      10 days ago

      The owners of one of the proposed sites have already gone on record saying that a) they had not been contacted by anyone about this, and b) they had no plans to sell the site because they already have their own plans for it.