Canavan: ‘Keep nuclear option open’

Senator Canavan seized on news yesterday that Victoria’s Yallourn coal-fired power station would close four years earlier than scheduled as a critical warning sign that renewables would not keep up with future demand.Senator Canavan has been a leading force behind a push within the Nationals to exploit Australia’s coal and uranium reserves for baseload power.In a speech in Townsville today he is expected to call the Yallourn announcement part of a “slow moving train smash”.“Over the next…



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