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It’s an energy race between the implausible and the impossible
Peter Dutton has come up with a nuclear-powered cost of living wedge to expose Labor’s overreach on renewables and sustainability.
Matthew WarrenEnergy expertAustralians now have a clear choice on energy policy at the next federal election: between the implausible and the impossible – Labor’s ambitious renewables-based energy system with heroic targets versus the Coalition’s promise of nuclear reactors that it cannot deliver.
The Coalition’s cunning plan to announce seven nuclear reactors by 2050 has nothing to do with building them. Not a bag of cement will be lifted. No steel will be girded. Not one blade of grass will be disturbed.
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