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South Australi’s Nuclear Royal Commission’s hypocrisy on renewable energy as ‘low carbon’ option

Christina Macpherson's avatarNuclear Australia

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scrutiny-Royal-Commission CHAINSouth Australia’s Nuclear Fuel Cycle Royal Commission seems to be focused on electricity generation from low carbon sources, but is paying lip service only to renewable energy
The Commission is currently holding public hearings http://nuclearrc.sa.gov.au/public-sessions/ in Adelaide.  They run from 9th September through to 8th October. These hearings are devoted to 6 topics :
  1.  Climate Change and Energy Policy
  2. National Electricity Market
  3. Geology and Hydrogeology of South Australia,
  4. Low Carbon Energy Generation Options,
  5. Estimating Costs and benefits of Nuclear Activities
  6. Environmental Impact: Lessons Learnt from Past SA Practices
At the same time, the Commission is going through the submissions that it received from the public, and publishing these on its website, http://nuclearrc.sa.gov.au/submissions/?search=Submissions  under 4 topic headings:
  1. EXPLORATION EXTRACTION AND MILLING
  2. FURTHER PROCESSING AND MANUFACTURE
  3. ELECTRICITY GENERATION
  4. MANAGEMENT STORAGE AND DISPOSAL OF WASTES.
I have been laboriously reading through these submissions. The Commission’s numbering method is haphazard, as they…

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