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The same NSW Government that just ordered a fleet of Indonesian made asbestos-riddled ferries that are too tall to go under two of Sydney’s bridges without decapitating passengers on the top deck, have last night announced their intention to lift the 33-year ban on uranium mining and nuclear power,
This comes after NSW One Nation senator, former John-Howard-punching-bag Mark Latham, introduced a bill that would see a return to digging up that same shit that caused the Chernobyl Distaster and is currently mutating every form of sea-life in the northern Pacific as it leaks out of the Fukushima reactors.
The fact that the airtight regimes of Soviet Russia and post-war Japan were unable to make nuclear power work without killing hundreds of thousands of people appears lost on the NSW government, the same people who allowed a cruise ship full of COVID-19 infected baby boomers to disembark in the centre of the biggest city in Australia at the height of a global pandemic.
However, last night cabinet agreed that it would consider its own pro-Uranium bill, as it would be a bad look to jump in bed with One Nation who are known for only introducing bills that have been drafted up and paid for by corporate lobbyists like the NRA, and maybe, you know, people with invested interests in making sure renewable energy never gets off the ground.
This is a surprising twist in the Liberal Party’s gentle push to talk about nuclear power instead of finally conceding that wind, solar and hydro power might be more reliable than burning dirty coal and fracking the water table for gas.
The Nuclear renaissance began in March, when Deputy Premier John Barilaro surprised colleagues by declaring that his party would support Mr Latham’s bill, despite not taking the issue to the Nationals’ party room.
Mr Barilaro, a long-time supporter of nuclear power, said the government should “lift the ban on nuclear energy” and confirmed his party would support it, once they had figured out what to do with the pile of rubble that used to be the Sydney Football Stadium that was torn down as part of a promise to major construction developer who has since lost interest after winning a contract to build the new Google offices in San Francisco.
MORE TO COME.
