The Greens NSW Energy spokesperson Jeremy Buckingham
today slammed the National
Party and NSW Deputy Premier John Barilaro for raising the prospect of a
nuclear power plant in NSW saying renewable energy
is safer, cheaper, and more effective at combatting climate change.
“I challenge
John Barilaro and Gladys Berejiklian to name which electorate, which
suburb and which town in NSW they think a nuclear power plant should be
built in,” Greens
MP Jeremy Buckingham said.
“They also need
to come clean with where they are planning to have a nuclear waste dump
to manage the highly radioactive waste fuel that will be produced.
“Nuclear power
is an enormous risk that is not worth taking. We should learn the
lessons from Fukushima and Chernobyl that nuclear power can be
catastrophic.
“This is just
another nutty, extreme idea from the National Party who is stuck in the
wrong century pushing coal and nuclear and ignoring the massive
renewable energy
potential of Australia.
“Launching their
nuclear ambitions in Broken Hill shows the Nationals are completely out
of touch with the community and the future of energy supply in
Australia.
“One of the
largest solar farms in the country, the Broken Hill Solar Plant, has
just been built and the nearby Silverton Wind Farm will be the largest
wind project in
NSW once it is constructed.
“The declining
cost of renewables means nuclear energy does not make financial sense,
as we can see with Japanese giant Toshiba going broke because of its
involvement
in nuclear power plants.
“Even if the
Nationals could force nuclear power through massive community
opposition, it is not an answer to our energy needs or climate crisis
with plants taking more
than a decade to be built.
“The Greens
believe the future of energy supply is renewables, not dirty coal and
dangerous nuclear power,” Mr Buckingham concluded.19 May 2017
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