Antinuclear

Analysing the Julie Bishop pro nuclear prouncement

In all the delight about Julie Bishop, Australia’s Foreign Minister, promoting nuclear power, surprisingly, The Sydney Morning Herald did have a go at analysing this.

I was sorry to see that the SMH still accepts the nuclear lobby’s lie that nuclear power doesn’t emit greenhouse gases. They should know that the nuclear fuel chain, in its entirety, emits masses of greenhouse gases.

However, this article DID examine the unaffordable costs of nuclear power – it must be tax-payer funded.

And importantly – the writer, Andrew P Street, did expose the fallacy of the “base load” myth.

He thinks that Julie Bishop’s tactic was just to distract Australia from the Abbott government’s climate denialist position. Perhaps so. Or perhaps Abbott thinks it’s now timely to get on the “nuclear power cures climate change” bandwagon. (but let Julie take any flak)

In another Sydney Morning Herald article, we learn that Dr Ziggy Switkowski, Australia’s foremost proponent of nuclear power, now thinks that renewables could be ‘more viable than nuclear ‘.  Ziggy’s worth watching – always the man with an eye out for the main chance

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