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Coalition announces where they want to build nuclear power stations (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by rainynight65@feddit.de to c/australia@aussie.zone
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"Peter Dutton has called a press conference for 10am, so it is all official – nuclear is go.

The Coalition teleconference meeting has wrapped up, and the seven sites have been named and it is as we thought: Collie in Western Australia, Mt Piper and Liddell in New South Wales, Callide and Tarong in Queensland, Northern Energy in South Australia and Loy Yang in Victoria."

"There are already issues being identified with the sites – first, the sites would need to be purchased from private operators. There will need to be some pretty major changes to legislation, both state and federally. The Queensland LNP, as recently as yesterday, said it would not lift the nuclear ban for the state, which is a problem given two Queensland reactor sites have been identified by Dutton’s team.

Tarong in Queensland is a particular issue as it doesn’t have a secure water source. In 2006, then-premier Peter Beattie had to propose a waste water pipeline as a last ditch measure to save the plant during a drought."

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[–] zik@aussie.zone 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Or rather they've decided what areas they'll mess around for years while nothing gets done until this farce finally gets canned.

[–] rainynight65@feddit.de 14 points 4 months ago

The owners of one of the proposed sites have already gone on record saying that a) they had not been contacted by anyone about this, and b) they had no plans to sell the site because they already have their own plans for it.