We know the Greens oppose any mining and particularly any uranium mining and nuclear industry. Since the formation of the GreenLabor Gillard Govt in Canberra there has been a significant stepping up of the Greens anti-uranium campaigns both in the Northern Territory and in Western Australia.
In the case of the Northern Territory – amazingly the Labor Govt there has caved to Green and NIMBY pressures to come out in opposition to the Angela Pamela project. I do not think it is coincidence that both campaigns target one of the leading global uranium producers – the Canadian company CAMECO.
These matters are posted here because if society wants reliable base load electricity that is pretty much carbon free – there is no current solution except nuclear powered electricity generation.
Greenies are the sand in the gears of modern civilisation – and they intend to be.
They’re all for wind power, but scramble madly to find something it’ll impact, such as the orange-bellied parrot, which migrates between southern Australia and Tasmania. Consisting of just 50 wild birds, it obviously evolved enough to fly, but too darn lazy to breed or simply drowning on the way. No wonder it’s highly endangered.
Greenies despise coal, oil, natural gas and power stations, but refuse to walk to their protests, instead driving their oil-chugging monstrosities, filled with plastic components (made from oil). I hope they’re at least car-pooling! They suspiciously forget that all they need for heat and light during a dark winter is a flick of a plastic switch (also made from oil).
The ideal paradise for Greenies is Nimbin, a small town off the coast in far north NSW, unfortunately still connected to the grid, infested with Greenies that don’t work, smoke pot, chant ’60’s free love stuff and still say “No Dams” for Tasmania, because the cuddly fluffy animals will drown in water rising in a gully some 1 foot per day. Damn slow fluffy politically-correct animals – they have no respect for human necessities such as clean and renewable hydrological energy. We’ll show nature how to behave! Greenies forget how much more habitat there’ll be for non-fluffy things such as leeches, for example.
Greenies also love trees. Love them enough to hammer metal spikes into them to blunt chainsaws, getting there in their oil-chugging monstrosities, probably not car-pooling either.
Greenies love the idea of clean energy, such as solar – but not nuclear. I remember the protests of decades ago such as “No Uranium Mining” etc., which probably incited Midnight Oil (much of which they were quite happy to burn when writing their political rhetoric)to do the unthinkable and rise to stardom, only for their leader to burn down many houses and kill people in a cuddly green feel-goodery insulation bungle. We have all the clean energy in the world buried under this deserted country, but we can’t dig it up because Greenies despise this form of clean energy for many reasons, including large holes in the ground, which they conveniently forget will become a lake in future, home for cuddly animals such as leeches or crocodiles.
I doubt any Greenie knows that when an electrical circuit heats up, it becomes more resistant to electrical flow, in which case solar panels on a sunny day can drop to as low as just 60% of their initial efficiency. Yep – much of their cabinet is made up of plastic too.
Some say the French have a generally bad attitude. If so, I like it. They say [snip] you to the Greenies and go out of their way to build more nuclear power plants – safely too. The green hell needs to be condemned for what it really is. Socialism, on a very hypocritical scale.