Antinuclear

Marketing nuclear to Australians – theme for March 2011

2011 is  NUCLEAR MARKETING YEAR for Australia. It is not like marketing nukes to other countries.  Why not?

The  marketing of nuclear power to Australians is a charade – just a matter of marketing the IDEA of nuclear power, without seriously planning the reality. Because everyone knows that Australia has plentiful coal and abundant renewable energy resources.  Everyone knows that the cost of nuclear for Australia is completely prohibitive.   So – nuclear power’s not going to happen, anyway, for a very long time, and more likely, never.

BUT – nuclear power must be marketed to Australians, because the supposed uranium boom requires Australia to sign up for the full nuclear cycle. And another boom has John White and others salivating – the projected boom in importing international radioactive wastes.  Why not?  – We’ve got plenty of Aboriginal land for the dumping.

As a distant, poorly informed, cultural colony of the Big Powers, Australians are sitting ducks for the media marketing push about to be unleashed in the famous “Nuclear Debate”

Some others in the nuclear marketing dance troupe: John Howard ( former PM), Dick Smith, (entrepreneur), Colin Barnett (WA Premier), Julie Bishop (Deputy Liberal leader), Ian MacFarlane (Liberal Energy shadow minister). Hugh Morgan (former CEO Western Mining), Ron Walker (Former Melbourne Lord Mayor),  Warren Mundine (former ALP President, Josh Frydenberg (Liberal MP for Kooyong). Not one of them knowing much about health or environment

And – let’s not forget the nuclear lobby’s Australian poster boy – Barry Brook.

March 4, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews