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The growing opposition to the Liberal Party’s un-costed and and increasingly unclear Nuclear Power Plan is starting to show in poll numbers.
Initially thought to be a bunch of whinging lefties, it now appears that the biggest opponents are coming from within the Coalition’s ranks.
A new advocacy group ‘Liberals Against Nuclear’ has been launched this week, as dissident conservatives begin to campaign against their own party’s policies.
The groups says it rejects the Coalition’s policy as it would require the government to borrow tens of billions of dollars, swell the bureaucracy and impose “massive taxpayer-backed risk” – while also ‘handing government back to Albanese’.
However, it’s not just the climate-focused Liberals and tree-huggers.
Right across Australia, surprising pockets of staunchly anti-nuclear sentiment is making themselves known.
Namely, the coal-mining communities that have been offered the opportunity to host these Australian infrastructural experiments. The data shows that the vast majority of the local voters would much prefer wind or solar projects over glowing reactors that require tens of millions of gigalitres in water.
The ‘teal’ electorates of inner-city Sydney, Melbourne and Perth are also furious about what they perceive to be the Liberal Party’s attempts to delay the transition away from fossil fuels.
And as always, the Tasmanians do not want a bar of these plans to play god with anti-environmental energy sources.
Known as the home of Australia’s anti-nuclear movement, even the State Liberal Party is not shy about their hatred for this Federal brainsap.
In fact, that’s probably why Peter Dutton hasn’t even included Tasmania in his initial proposal of seven potential sites for nuclear power plants.
But still, even knowing that there will be an operational nuclear power plant on the northern side of the bass strait has Tasmanian locals terrified about a potential meltdown leaking into their waterways and causing locals to become one-headed.
“We stand firmly opposed to this witchcraft” says the Liberal Premier for Tasmania, Jeremy Rockliff.
“We do not want to be down stream from any potential Fukushimas”
“Just look at how fucking hard it has been to build this Hobart stadium. We don’t even have NBN. Half of our towns don’t even have a school. Do you honestly have faith in our Federal Government’s ability to not cut corners on a nuclear power roll out?”
