Tim Flannery: – ‘Australia will never need nuclear power
Tim Flannery on ABC Radio National Breakfast 3 Dec 09
Fran Kelly: Does Australia need nuclear power in your view?
Flannery: No it doesn’t and it never will. There’s no way we’ll ever need nuclear power in this country. That’s just another delaying tactic I’m afraid……
Aboriginal delegation to Copenhagen
Indigenous delegates head to Copenhagen ABC Indigenous Dec 9, 2009 Representatives of Australia’s northern Aboriginal land councils will fly to the United Nations’ climate change conference in Copenhagen today. Continue reading
Australian opposition policy on climate, nuclear, is a ‘farce’
Turnbull brands Abbott an ETS ‘weathervane’ * THE AUSTRALIAN December 08, 2009 “………former Liberal Party leader Malcolm Turnbull declares it’s time for some straight talking on climate change. …….I tell a few home truths about the farce that the Coalition’s policy, or lack of policy, on climate change has descended into. Continue reading
People wait for Liberal Party’s answers on climate and nuclear
Liberal Party back to the future on nuclear power Peter Garrett 3 December 2009 Tony Abbott and the extremists in the Liberal Party have gone back to the future on nuclear power. Today we see ‘close to 99 per cent’ * of Liberal’s urging Mr Abbott to dust off John Howard’s plan for nuclear reactors to be built around the country.The Liberal Party has flicked the switch back to default setting. Continue reading
Religious faith: nuclear is CLEAN, CHEAP, and waste NO PROBLEM
Nuclear is CLEANEST power source – Senator ABC News 4 Dec 09 By Aislin O’Connor and Kirsty Nancarrow
The Country Liberal Party’s Nigel Scullion has praised the new federal Opposition Leader, Tony Abbott, for opening the nuclear discussion. Continue reading
Coalition ignores nuclear problems: water, cost, dangers
Thirsty energy
ABC News 4 Dec 09 Scott Ludlam says there are issues with where the nuclear power plants would be sited. Continue reading
Tony Abbott’s climate nonsense
Tony Abbott’s plan to reduce Australia’s carbon emissions by at least 5% by 2020 — the only sure commitment on climate change we know about given Abbott’s flip-flopping yesterday — will depend pretty much on just how stupid he thinks voters are. Continue reading
Nuclear industry enriches Liberal heavyweights
Open Your eyes News 3 Dec 09 “……..Ed – By an amazing coincidence any expansion of Australia’s fledgling nuclear industry would greatly enrich the handful of the already richest people in Australia who own the sector, including Fairfax media group and former national Treasurer of the Liberal Party, Ron Walker
Abbott and Bishop in the Nuclear Faith
Australia: two new uranium markets. Nuclear Reaction 2 Dec 09 “………….just after noon today, Abbott opened up the prospect of a debate on nuclear power in Australia as a means of reducing greenhouse gases. Continue reading
Australia to be worst hit by global warming
Why do climate deniers hold sway in Australia? The Guardian 1 Dec 09 If Australia does not silence its sceptics and reduce its emissions there is a real risk of the nation becoming uninhabitable Continue reading
Where the COAL ition stands on Climate and Nuclear
Nationals demand Liberal Party reverse course on support for emissions trading scheme MATTHEW FRANKLIN The Australian * December 01, 2009 THE Nationals want the Liberals to dump support for carbon emissions trading and instead adopt practical measures to combat climate change, including the possible use of nuclear energy…….
Australia Avoids the Nuclear Option – Epoch Times 1 Dec 09 “……….The Liberal Party’s policy backs nuclear power, saying it is “the most significant component of an immediate response to climate change Continue reading
Australian nuclear terrorist to be released
France may release Brigitte in 2010 Sydney Morning Herald December 2, 2009 -Australia’s most notorious terrorist Willie Brigitte could be released from a French jail in the new year, after having served less than half his sentence for conspiring to blow up the nation’s only nuclear reactor and the power grid……….. Continue reading
Liberals – now the party of Climate Change Denial
During the debate over the leadership, Mr Turnbull warned the Liberals could not be seen as a party of climate sceptics who would do nothing.
Australia way behind in new energy race
Australia is losing the new energy race Business Spectator, Giles Parkinson 1 Dec 09 ”
“………………..Australia is at real risk of watching the clean energy transformation pass right by. Continue reading
Liberal party faces climate denialist future, in the wilderness
They Know Not What They Do THE AUSTRALIAN, Bob Carr 30 Nov 09 CLIMATE change deniers may be congratulating themselves on the likely defeat of the government’s legislation, even on getting a denier installed as Liberal leader.But if Mitch Hooke of the Minerals Council has ordered champagne for a celebration with coal industry lobbyists he ought to think about the law of unintended consequences. And so should Nick Minchin.In politics, as in military strategy, game-playing is useful. But climate change deniers – industrial and political – have not been asking themselves “what next?”………. Continue reading
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