Opinion
Nuclear vs Renewables shouldn’t be Ford vs Holden
Reducing the complexities of national energy policy to a clean energy brawl is the last thing Australia needs in the middle of the biggest industrial rebuild in the nation’s history.
Matthew WarrenEnergy expertThere are two proven types of scalable clean energy: nuclear and renewables. Such is Australia’s ideological divide on climate change, we have ended up with our two major political parties backing rival engines.
At a basic level, the Coalition has a point. We should be talking rationally about nuclear energy in Australia because we might need it, and the world certainly will. With the biggest uranium reserves on Earth, it is an economic and geopolitical own goal to persist with bans and moratoriums on uranium mining.
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