Liberal frontbencher refuels nuclear debate

Tuesday, 19 August 2008

Labor Party say No to Nuclear power here. Fair enough their choice yes? If this is the stance then Whats the go with India? India want Uranium but dont want to sign the NPT. Docs. Usa Want them passed anyway so as to pick up Contracts. Dont be coy Ms Wong. Your Govt needs to object at the meeting until India sign. We can Sell this stuff to the world but NOT use it ourselves? The Hypocrisy is pathetic. If we're serious about ecology then we should use it Here and develope it here too

Posted by: Nick Again, Maryborough

Tuesday, 19 August 2008

So the Libs do have a policy on something. 25 Nuclear reactors, so let's see 5 in Sydney, 4in Melbourne, 2 in Adelaide, 2 in Perth, 2 in Brisbane, 1 in Newcastle, 1 in Geelong, 1 in Cairns, 1 in Gosford, 1 in Wollongong, 2 in Canberra, 2 more for Sydney and 1 more for Melbourne. The good thing is that to reduce transmission loss these things can be put right in the communities that need them. I can see this policy will be a real vote winner. No wonder they haven't come clean on this policy

Posted by: Graeme Henderson, Darling Downs

Tuesday, 19 August 2008

Ian MacFarlane good on you. Penny Wong is a hypocrite just like her leader Kevin Rudd. They have gone around scaring the people about the dire consequences of climate change and yet they keep on allowing the export of fossil fuels to Countries that are adding copious amounts of greenhouse gases to into the atmosphere. If the Climate change believers are correct then isn't it a better bet to use nuclear energy, with the hope of finding a safe method of storing or converting the waste, than to fry ourselves with the continued use of fossil fuels.

Posted by: Desmond Harris, Beacon Hill

Tuesday, 19 August 2008

they use it in europe, france etc. works great there, i have seen it. nuclear power is the only way to go. well done libs hope they listen

Posted by: carol lyn, sydney

Tuesday, 19 August 2008

Yep, Good Call Ian McFarlane. Bring nuclear power on now !! And let's hear your leaders, Nelson, Turnbull and Costello throwing their full support behind you.

Posted by: Neil Mason, Sydney

Tuesday, 19 August 2008

First one can go in Mr MacFarlane's back yard

Posted by: Belinda Hummie, New lambton

Tuesday, 19 August 2008

Don't worry Desmond, Belinda is getting the next gas powered one and the pipe line is being built past here right now. Nuclear is no solution, it is expensive and there is no safe way of storing the waste. Unfortunately there is so much corrupt money in the nuclear industry that the likes of Howard and McFarlane can simply be bought. As if McFarlane actually knows anything that the Nuclear Industry didn't program him with. Nuclear is the only thing dirtier than coal.

Posted by: Graeme Henderson, Darling Downs

Tuesday, 19 August 2008

you guys are so far behind, european countries like sweden already use it, wondering if any of you nay sayers ever left your own backyard. nuclear power is used in environmentally friendly countries now. get with it, go libs

Posted by: carol lyn, sydney

Tuesday, 19 August 2008

but you dont object to us selling to overseas countries like nick says. none of you got a problem with that as long as aussies dont get the cheap power it can fuel. is it only australian backyards you care about . get a life outside your own backyard people travel to europe.

Posted by: carol lyn, sydney

Tuesday, 19 August 2008

swedens storage is brilliant nick, and it should be done by the govt. henderson, ill go when i choose, on holidays : )) I wish you would go somewhere with your hysterical babbling. ill show you, if you show me your not another of fuddy ruddy duddys carbon emissions stooges. your an old fart whose only claim to fame now is a big scaremongering bad mouth. isnt it time for the retirement home henderson , or wont they allow you to object loud enough there.

Posted by: carol lyn, sydeny

Tuesday, 19 August 2008

if just a fraction of the money spent today building nuclear and other weapons and blowing countries up.. was redirected towards research and development in new technologies for power including wind, solar, geothermal, running cars on water etc etc etc.. the world could feed ,clothe, house and energise everyone.. we can do without nuclear waste hanging about for who knows how long and at who knows what cost.. we can do much better.

Posted by: just thinking, south