Barnaby Joyce has doubled down on the “incredibly dear” costs Australians will have to bear with the government’s planned renewable energy transition, stressing nuclear power was a far more economically feasible alternative for the taxpayer in the long run.
A motion backed by the Nationals MP to have his party dump the net zero emissions by 2050 target from their climate policies was defeated at the Nationals Federal Conference on Saturday.
Barnaby Joyce says renewable energy will come at an"incredibly dear" cost to regional Australians. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman “They’re being surrounded by an industrial landscape of wind towers higher than the top of the Sydney Harbour Bridge so that a place such as Walka has got more structures over 260 metres than the Sydney CBD.
“We do support going to nuclear and I’m very glad of that because nuclear would mean you don’t have to build the transmissions lines back and forth over people’s properties across the nation at the cost of hundreds of billions of dollars,” he said.
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