GOING NUCLEAR: Are you ready for this fight?

It looks like the next Federal election is shaping up as a ‘referendum’ on nuclear energy in Australia now that Peter Dutton has thrown down the gauntlet and nominated seven sites in Australia where the Coalition would like to establish some nuclear reactors.

All we can say is: it’s about time!

Pauline Hanson has always been an advocate for nuclear energy. About 30 countries use it at about 450 sites around the world. Australia is, in fact, the only significant economy in the world which doesn’t use it despite having almost a quarter of the world’s entire proven uranium reserves.

It’s time for us to grow up.

Labor’s scare campaign has already begun. They’re hoping to scare us away from nuclear power. Labor MPs’ social media are already full of nightmare images designed to frighten us about a proven technology operating safely all over the world delivering reliable, baseload dispatchable energy to billions of people. Labor doesn’t understand nuclear energy – and people often fear what they don’t understand.

Labor is also being hypocritical to the extreme with its scare campaign. Why try to frighten Australians about nuclear reactors when you’re planning to buy and build submarines powered by nuclear reactors? Politics, of course. Energy and climate politics has been one of the main factors in the downfall of political party leaders – both Labor and Coalition – since Kevin Rudd was challenged by Julia Gillard 14 years ago.

Get ready for another round of the climate wars!