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Nuclear and Climate News this week in Australia

Prime Minister Abbott has done several worrying things this week. As I wrote this, I watched  Liberal Cabinet member Malcolm Turnbull on ABC television adroitly parrying Leigh Sales’ questioning about the ABC.  As well he might, as his boss, Abbott has launched an attack on the ABC, and in particular, on its coverage of climate change.

Abbott is setting up an inquiry into the health impacts of wind energy. Presumably he does not trust several Australian inquiries , nor the  19 reviews overseas, that found no health impacts.

Abbott’s appointments:

• Alan Moran (anti- wind anti-solar energy campaigner) to the review panel for the Renewable Energy target. Moran also keen to have a radioactive waste importing facility in Australia.
• Peter Cosgrove (miltary man and nuclear power enthusiast) for Governor General
• Tim Wilson (wants to weaken Racial Discrimination Act) as Freedom Commissioner
• Sophie Mirabella (former right wing Liberal MP) to submarine corporation ASC – at a time when nuclear submarines are advocated.

New South Wales government – toeing the Abbott line on climate change, instructs coastal Councils to ignore “doomsday” UN scenarios of global sea-level rises

Also New South Wales -construction of Australia’s largest solar PV plant – to be operational by June 2015. (Imagine any nuclear plant going up that fast!)

February 1, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Christina reviews