Paul Howes defies ACTU policy on nuclear
Paul Howes and Bill Shorten are a couple of young gungho, publicity-seeking right-wing Labor politicians. They’re both bent on getting to the top, and know who to make friends with – the big powerful corporations.
Paul Howes doesn’t miss an opportunity to spruik pro-nuke. And, it doesn’t bother him if he has no sensible answers to the critics of the uranium/nuclear industry.
Paul is quite happy to use the time-honoured methods of the nuclear lobby – just denigrate your opponents – so much easier than addressing the issues.
The Age, 7 November 09, on Paul Howes: “He dumps on Labor’s opposition to nuclear power, describing the stance as ‘ancient, hypochondriac…superstitions of another age’ that ignore the evidence of its potential as a clean and viable source of long-term energy.
Howes advocacy of the nuclear option flies in the face of its staunch rejection by the ACTU – of which he is vice-president”
The strange mentality of some nuclear commentators
In a week of dubious comments from fossil-fuel and nuclear industry puppets, it’s been hard to choose the weirdest comment.
But I like the one from Northern Territory Labor MP Damien Hale. Apparently, Hale’s view is that if a state is already contaminated with radioactive pollution, then it’s just fine to go ahead there and add more pollution. Is South Australia stuffed already, as far as radioactive contamination goes – so it can be open slather for nuclear waste in S.A.?
The Labor Member for Solomon, Damien Hale, .. says there is political support for the dump to be built in South Australia.”Now we all know there’s areas of Australia that are already contaminated through radioactivity,”Territory MP wants nuke waste dumped in SA – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
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