Environment groups say nuclear push a "dangerous distraction" to clean energy debate

Updated March 8 2020 - 8:39am, first published March 6 2020 - 12:00pm
NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham's Uranium Mining And Nuclear Facilities (Prohibitions) Repeal Bill is currently before the upper house and, if successful, would see the 36-year prohibition on uranium mining and nuclear lifted.
NSW One Nation leader Mark Latham's Uranium Mining And Nuclear Facilities (Prohibitions) Repeal Bill is currently before the upper house and, if successful, would see the 36-year prohibition on uranium mining and nuclear lifted.

THE Nature Conservation Council says the Nationals' support for nuclear power is a "dangerous and expensive distraction" from the coal to clean energy debate and is not the sustainable, long-term priority for the environment.

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