Letter to the Editor: Reckless pursuit of renewable energy Opinion Property/Sports/Opinion - popup ad by News Of The Area - Modern Media - February 13, 2025 DEAR News Of The Area, FELLOW Australians, this decade will go down as one of the worst in our short history as a debacle over a reckless pursuit of renewable energy. Australia is a democracy so why won’t our Federal and State Governments allow us to debate the use of nuclear for power generation? Ever since Al Gore charged around the world mouthing off about climate change the world has gone mad. I am sure man has added to the problem but the world will never reach Net Zero. We have our heroes “Blackout Bowen” and “Kopout Kean” telling us wind and sun are free but failing to tell us the price to capture, enhance, store and transport the resultant power. Where is the base power? They will punch us above our weight into oblivion and bankrupt us in the process. How can “Adam Rant” and the Greens agree to cut down pristine forest, destroy koala habitat to erect huge turbines and connect them with poles and wire to lithium batteries. The lithium itself garnered from huge flooded fields a la rice paddies causing further devastation to the environment. What do we do with the resultant mess when these monstrosities come to the end of their life? We want to know the whole costs of each project from initiation to completion, nothing hidden and who actually owns the end product. Anyone who challenges the Wokes is shot down in flames. In the last 20 years Australia has gone steadily downhill. We are about to catch up with Argentina. What is wrong with coal and gas anyway? China, India, America, Australia and most of the world are still using it. You should read what Jennie George thinks of her old mates or take a look at Chris Uhlmann on U Tube. Look at what Angela Merkel and the Greens have done to Germany. We don’t trust the government nor their mouth pieces such as the CSIRO, the ABC or The Guardian. A meaningful discussion needs to be convened where this issue can be successfully discussed without everyone coming out of their corner fighting. This issue is beyond party politics, unfortunately we are stuck with the policy of our current Government which needs to go before they totally stuff up our lovely country. I have read all the discussions on nuclear in this paper and found the most informative to be that of Derek Musgrove. We don’t half go on about the dangers of nuclear. Disposal long term is a problem but hopefully we will find a solution to this problem. Regards, David BRUCE, Tea Gardens.