EDO Submission to House Select Committee on Nuclear Energy
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EDO does not support the establishment of a nuclear power industry in Australia. In EDO’s view, energy transition projects must meet the following principles: 12 principles for renewable energy transition projects. Nuclear energy projects do not meet these principles, and are a slow, economically unviable, environmentally risky, and socially unpalatable distraction from the genuine and urgently needed renewable energy transition.
EDO therefore supports existing prohibitions on nuclear actions under the Environment Protection & Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 (Cth) and relevant state or territory legislation, and supports investment and development of genuine renewable energy projects to deliver the imperative energy transition.
