Travelling roadshows of climate sceptics and nuclear enthusiasts are hitting regional towns nominated by Peter Dutton for nuclear. But are people listening?
Conservative economists, lobbyists, commentators and energy boffins have descended on regional communities nominated by the Coalition for nuclear sites, in a raft of events aimed at changing hearts and minds in the bush.
The group has more than 10,000 followers on Facebook; it has paid ads on Meta’s social media platforms that can reach up to 500,000 people; and it held a standing-room only pro-nuclear event recently in Lithgow.Shackel said he wasn’t a political party member, and his organisation received no funding from any party.
“You’ve got to have a bottom up approach to lifting the ban, and also be able to influence the politicians and the people at the top,” he said. Professed concerns about wind turbines, and their effects on landscapes, are common among pro-nuclear campaigners. In 2022, Plimer told a conservative conference: “No one has ever shown that human emissions of CO2 drive global warming … and if it could be shown, then you would have to show that the 97 per cent of emissions which are natural do not drive global warming.”Also speaking was Dr Alan Moran, an economist and former director at the conservative think tank the Institute of Public Affairs, who on his website derides “green radicals”.
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