Russell Broadbent here, your Federal Member for Monash.
Labor, The Greens, and Teals have got a real problem if they remain ignorant to the undeniable role that nuclear energy must play in our energy grid.
If the goal is to reduce emissions and reach net zero by 2050, surely nuclear is the obvious option.
Nuclear beats renewable energy, fair and square. Nuclear provides continuous and reliable energy. Renewables provide intermittent and unreliable energy.
The future of renewable energy is riddled with uncertainty. Investment in renewable energy projects has stalled because of their flawed business case and governments changing the rules, moving the goal posts. Yet still, the government of the day is persistent to focus on renewables only. And if the Government is so sure that the market does not approve of nuclear energy, just lift the ban and find out!
Labor’s obsession with renewables as a source for baseload power doesn’t stack up. Renewables can’t be a source for baseload power due to their intermittent output. It has already gotten to the point where state governments are paying for the continuation of coal-fired power plants because otherwise, we’d be in for blackouts!
In a country where we are wealthy in natural resources, we should surely have our energy security figured out. But the failed effort to conform with global standards of ‘sustainability’ will impose a negative supply shock on energy, on ourselves!
In the long run, we need to be thinking about sustainability in its former meaning – the ability to maintain productivity, and that is not possible if Australia is left in the dark.
That's justice as I see it.
