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Michael Wright, the national secretary of the Electrical Trades Union, has said that the Coalition’s nuclear “plan” is causing an “investment drought, jobs drought and chaos” by discouraging investment in renewables. Wright made those comments to Guardian Australia following the launch of the ETU’s ad campaign targeting the $600bn price tag of nuclear energy.
Wright said the Coalition’s timeframe for nuclear is “unrealistic” and it doesn’t merit being called a policy because details of its cost and how much electricity would be generated are “absent”. Nevertheless, investors in renewable energy are pulling back, meaning that Peter Dutton’s plan is already “costing ETU members work and jobs”.
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