Antinuclear

Australia’s gas industry a lesser evil than uranium and nuclear power

As one who cares about the environment, I am reluctant to enthuse about LNG. However, the facts must be faced.  In this over-populated world, with developing countries wanting material prosperity – energy use is escalating. And Australia is an energy exporter.

Nuclear energy’s real promise for the future is global and permanent pollution, epidemic cancer,   escalating war and terrorism risk  – increasing fear, danger, and suppression of civil liberties.

Liquified  Natural Gas has its own threats of environmental damage, and erosion of civil liberties (especially for farming communities).

Until the world swings properly to energy conservation and renewables, LNG presents itself as a lesser evil, and as one more piece of compelling evidence that Australia does not need nuclear power, nor uranium mining. – Christina Macpherson

Gas boom could put us on top of the world: Woodside’s Michael Hession, THE AUSTRALIAN, RICK WALLACE, TOKYO CORRESPONDENT , July 20, 2011 AUSTRALIA could become the world’s largest exporter of LNG, the head of Woodside’s Browse Basin project told a major energy conference in Japan yesterday.

Woodside’s Michael Hession said Australia was poised to become the second-largest exporter behind Qatar, and was ideally placed to meet the soaring demand being driven by Asian growth and the shift away from nuclear power in the wake of Japan’s Fukushima disaster.

The conference heard a range of bullish predictions on the future of Australia’s LNG industry, including the assessment from Australian government forecaster Jane Melanie that “what we are expecting to see is nothing less than a gas revolution”…..    Dr Hession said the trend away from nuclear power in Japan and other countries would fuel this demand even more....http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/mining-energy/gas-boom-could-put-us-on-top-of-the-world-woodsides-michael-hession/story-e6frg9df-1226097870716

July 19, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | AUSTRALIA - NATIONAL, business