[clive milne]

A couple of nights ago on 720 ABC radio John McGlue was interviewing the state minister for mines.. He was hawking the idea of using nuclear power in Australia. He made two statements during the course of the interview which I think are worth sharing:

1. Nuclear energy does not have a carbon footprint at all. (Implicitly, the mines run on sunshine and fairy dust apparently)

2. Natural gas as an energy source has close to zero emissions... the only carbon dioxide released is that which is brought up from the well.

I do not believe for a second that someone could get to his position of office with that degree of ignorance, which begs the question of his (and his political party's) honesty and priorities. It also says something for the quality of commentary in the main stream media that these statements passed without comment or correction, let alone the intellectual flaying they deserved.

Incidentally, the same individual a couple of weeks earlier stated that there has never been a single incidence of groundwater contamination as a result of fracking...

I might be so bold as to posit that the 'mandate' the budgie smuggler cloaks his agenda in is nothing more than consent manufactured by an utterly corrupt collective of malefactors masquerading as the ghost of the fourth estate. However, even with the spin doctors beavering away like trojans, an increasing number Australians are beginning to sense the true nature (and magnitude) of the finely polished coprolith we were sold last year.

Clearly, our country was traded like sacks of wheat and buckets of rocks (both red and black) for temporary privileges accorded to the few local misanthropes who facilitated the negotiation.
I am trying not to invest emotionally in the outcome.