Reactions to the Coalition’s plan to replace coal-fired power plants with nuclear reactors are mixed – but the skies are still overcast for renewables
David 'Bushie' Stewart, a retired coal worker living in Miadenwell – or ‘woop woop’ – who thinks coalmines and power stations should stay online while there’s coal to be dug up.David 'Bushie' Stewart, a retired coal worker living in Miadenwell – or ‘woop woop’ – who thinks coalmines and power stations should stay online while there’s coal to be dug up.
Still, Collison can see the energy transition occurring rapidly before his eyes, with several large-scale solar and windfarms being built in this rich agricultural region to Brisbane’s north-west. With renewables “all going ahead”, Collison says a gradual transition from coal to solar and wind is “a no-brainer”.– should both be elected – and reject Dutton’s nuclear vision. On this basis alone, the farmhand will vote for Labor at Queensland’s state election this 26 October.
“Any human error and we’ll be dead, or we’ll have cancer,” she says. “And I came out here for the fresh air”.Tarong’s power station is largely hidden from view by forest, but five hours’ north up the Burnett Highway, signs point towards a scenic lookout of the open cut coalmine and coal-fired Callide power plant.
Lederhose agrees too with advocates who propose a nuclear plant at Gladstone, saying it would be a “sensible solution” for the port city home to the state’s largest coal-fired power plant.“There’s a lot of dirty industry there that puts a lot of emissions out,” she says. “So anything that they can do to clean that environment would be a massive bonus.”
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