USA’s billionaires’ nuclear front group Breakthrough Institute spinning in Australia
Todays’ AUSTRALIAN touts a nuclear promotion by Jessical Lovering:
“Jessica Lovering is director of energy at The Breakthrough Institute, a US environmental and energy 
think tank. She is visiting Australia to discuss nuclear innovation with energy policy experts, parliamentarians and government agencies.”
think tank. She is visiting Australia to discuss nuclear innovation with energy policy experts, parliamentarians and government agencies.”Just let’s be clear on who Jessica Lovering represents, and who is paying for her visit.
Well, the visit is paid for by the Minerals Council of Australia, also sponsored by the breakthrough Institute.
The Breakthrough Institute is a pretend-environmental group that propagandises for new nuclear power It’s interesting that Jessica will be speaking in Sydney on May 30th, and in Adelaide on May 31st – coincidentally, just as the Parliamentary Committe is about to give its blessing to Australia signing up to join in developing new :”Generation IV” nuclear reactors
The Breakthrough Institute launched the Breakthrough Energy Coalition at the start of the COP21 climate talks in Paris, with collective wealth of three hundred and fifty billion dollars.
The Breakthrough Institute is a billionaire’s club of “new nuclear” proponents, (to name just a few):
- Bill Gates who owns Terra Power LLC, a nuclear design and engineering company
- Richard Branson, publicly touts nuclear energy and put his name on Pandora’s Promise as executive producer.
- Mukesh Ambani an investor in Terra Power
- Jeff Bezos investor in nuclear fusion
- Chris Hohn’s TCI hedge fund invested in J-Power, a Japanese utility company whose assets included nuclear power stations.
- Vinod Khosla loves nuclear power and is on record blaming environmentalists rather than nuclear energy’s obviously disastrous economics, for its failure.Chinese billionaire
- Jack Ma of Alibaba, involved in China’s investment in the UK’s planned Hinkley-C nuclear power plant.
- Ratan Tata investing in nuclear energy in India
Last time the Breakthrough Institute send a macho man to spin to Australia. Lately they’ve turned to using trendy young women – a case of handing over the poisoned chalice?
Antinuclear 
The Breakthrough Institute has no affiliation with the Breakthrough Energy Coalition or any of their funder, just a similar sounding name. The Breakthrough Institute publicly lists all its funders on their website, but they do not take any money from industry: https://thebreakthrough.org/about/who-we-are/funders
The Minerals Council did pay my travel costs for that visit, but I received no other compensation, and they did not control what I said in any regard.
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