CLANCY OVERELL | Editor | Contact
The Coalition’s half a trillion dollar nuclear transition is upon us, and it is already lighting up the homes of rural Australia.
Naughty kids from the neglected regional towns right across the country are today waking up to lumps of Uranium, instead of coal.
This follows the Liberal Party’s many headline-grabbing but extremely vague plan to build nuclear plants on the sites of seven coal-fired power stations which have shut, or are earmarked to close.
This estimated 30-year-long Nuclear power project has been tabled by an Opposition who spent their last ten years in power outwardly denying climate change science and ridiculing renewable energy – in a desperate effort to keep the fossil fuel sector alive.
Instead of betraying the billionaire mining bosses who control their party, the Opposition has instead come up with a plan even more difficult to implement than wind, solar or hydro.
This means the inevitable transition to renewable energy will be delayed yet another decade, and coal will remain relevant enough to keep the Liberal Party’s dear friends in the mining sector very rich.
However, as the limping remnants of Australia’s traditional media desperately tries to humanise Peter Dutton, and normalise his party’s incompetent policymaking, there appears to be a fair few political commentators that are at least pretending to believe that this Nuclear Power plan is more than a stunt to disrupt the roll-out of energy sources that do not destroy the planet.
Because of this, rural Australia are being told to suck it up, and accept the fact that their voice-less towns will now be used as a nuclear experiment – in a country that is incapable of rolling out a succesful National Broadband Scheme, or even an Online Census.
Now, the naughty kids who will inevitably work at these high-risk Nuclear power plants are getting a taste of the dangerous materials that will soon arrive at their hometowns en masse.
Christmas stockings are glowing green in the towns of Tarong and Callide in QLD, Mount Piper near Lithgow and Liddell in NSW, Port Augusta in South Australia, Loy Yang in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley and Muja in Western Australia.
