Australia’s carbon tax and renewables on the rise, bring a panic reaction from nuclear spin doctors

It’s been quite a week, for energy policy in Australia. Interviews with 14,000 Australians showed that 91% want renewable energy (http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/2776594.html). The Western Australian Labor “Party came out with a renewed, and stronger, anti-nuclear policy. Prime Minster Julia Gillard and the Greens negotiated a carbon tax agreement with a $multibillion fund for renewable energy .

With all this, All Australia’s old nuke spin doctors must be in a panic. They were out in force, and some new ones, too.

Their current story is that the Fukushima radiation is nothing to worry about, really – (like asbestos) it doesn’t kill anyone in the short term.

Further, they’re telling us that the Fukushima “event is EVIDENCE that the new nuclear reactors will be safe.

Even better, they somehow wangled Dr Adi Paterson, the CEO of the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisationto be keynote speaker at Sydney’s Solar Energy Conference. As a loyal pro-nuker, Paterson used his chance to rubbish renewable energy, and promote nuclear. – Christiona Macpherson