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CEF in the media  |  Jun 25, 2024

OP ED | Coalition’s taxpayer funded nuclear con a road to ruin

The Australian Financial Review

As Tim Buckley an Annemarie Jonson argue in this op ed, the LNP’s egregious $100bn+ taxpayer funded nuclear hoax is fiscal irresponsibility of the highest order, designed to disrupt and delay the accelerating renewables transition, as it does catastrophic damage to surging investor confidence in Australia’s firmed renewables rollout and trashes our Paris commitments. Read more
CEF in the media  |  Jun 21, 2024

Nuclear energy: Expert predicts $100b price tag for Peter Dutton’s seven reactors

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In the West Australian, Climate Energy Finance director Tim Buckley said the CSIRO’s modelling of costs to build nuclear reactors was conservative, estimating the capital cost of the entire project at between $80 billion and $100 billion. “On top of that, you’re looking at $30 billion to $50 billion for the rehabilitation in 60 years time when they have to be decommissioned, another $10 billion for upgrades and refurbishments in 30 years’ time,” he said. Read more
CEF in the media  |  Jun 20, 2024

VIDEO | ‘Bizarre’: Coalition launches nuclear policy ‘without any facts’

News Corp papers

Syndicated across News Corp mastheads nationally including all regional sites in QLD: Climate Energy Finance Director Tim Buckley has hit out at the Coalition government for providing little information when revealing its nuclear energy plan.Mr Buckley said his best cost estimate for the Coalition government’s nuclear energy plan following the CSIRO GenCost report would be $100 billion. “It’s a rather large number to not have any facts on,” Mr Buckley said. “For the shadow energy minister to spend a year building a detailed analysis of the federal opposition energy and climate strategy and provide rather limited facts, rather limited details – a one-page flyer really doesn’t cut it when you’re talking about a $100 billion of public money being invested. It’s a little bizarre that Ted O’Brien’s announcing this policy without any facts.” Read more
CEF in the media  |  Jun 20, 2024

VIDEO | Dutton gives voters nuclear power option

The Australian

Tim Buckley’s Sky News interview excoriating the LNP’s nuclear con is embedded in this feature on the Australian by its Canberra Bureau Chief and Political Editor summarising responses from a broad range of thought leaders Read more
CEF in the media  |  Jun 20, 2024

VIDEO | LNP nuclear policy doesn’t stack up

Sky News

Tim Buckley demolishes the Coalition’s fact-free nuclear press release on Sky News AM Agenda Read more
CEF in the media  |  Jun 19, 2024

OP ED | Nuclear plan is fiscal irresponsibility on an epic scale and rank political opportunism

Renew Economy

While the Coalition has failed to release any detail or costings, today we have confirmation that if it gets into office, Australians will be paying a mult-billion dollar “nukebuilder” tax for generations to come for a national build out of government-owned nuclear reactors across seven locations, including on the sites of former coal-fired power stations. It beggars belief that opposition leader Peter Dutton proposes nationalising a nuclear public debt bomb and detonating it at the heart of energy policy in this country. Read more
CEF in the media  |  Jun 19, 2024

‘Raises red flags’: Coalition nuclear power plan met with widespread scepticism from business groups

The Guardian

Tim Buckley, director of think tank Climate Energy Finance, said Australians would be paying “a multi-billion dollar ‘nukebuilder’ tax for generations to come by being forced to front the cash for a national buildout of government-owned nuclear reactors”. “Electricity prices would skyrocket as private investment in new replacement capacity is crowded out, resulting in undersupply for the next 15-25 years while we wait for the LNP’s nuclear white elephants to arrive,” Buckley said. Read more
CEF in the media  |  Jun 19, 2024

VIDEO | Australia needs bipartisan support for nuclear power plants and there is no sign of it | Samantha Maiden

News Corp papers

Syndicated in News Corp state based mastheads across Australia – Climate Energy Finance Director Tim Buckley says Opposition leader Peter Dutton’s plan to use nuclear energy is “financially illogical”. Read more
CEF in the media  |  Jun 19, 2024

Nuclear ‘financially illogical’ and about ‘climate wars’

The Australian

Director of think tank Climate Energy Finance Tim Buckley says nuclear is “financially illogical” and is about extending “climate wars”. Mr Buckley told Sky News the proposed plan announced today does little to address the current climate challenges, and the infrastructure delivery plan is not commercially viable. “We have no nuclear capacity in Australia,” he said. “We don’t have the workforce, and we can’t afford the 20+ year delay (opposition leader) Peter Dutton is proposing today.” {scroll down to 4:06pm post at link). Read more
CEF in the media  |  Jun 18, 2024

Australian Opposition Details Plan For Nuclear Rollout If Elected

Barron's

Syndicated globally via AFP – Australia’s conservative opposition will build nuclear power plants across the country if it wins the next election, according to plans detailed Wednesday that have reignited debate over climate policy. Opposition leader Peter Dutton said he would overturn a 26-year nuclear ban to build seven government-owned reactors on the sites of ageing coal-fired power stations.Climate finance expert Tim Buckley said nuclear power in Australia was “impossible”. “The idea that nuclear could be up and running in 2035-37 is fanciful, and even that is too late given our concurrent climate and energy crises,” he said. Read more
CEF in the media  |  Jun 12, 2024

OP ED | We need to talk about renewable energy projects

Canberra Times

Offshore wind can play a significant role in supporting our industrial and energy security needs. With its greater reliability and consistent supply, it can be an essential component of our future economic security through the Future Made in Australia Act. Leaders from Australia’s offshore wind sector and Climate Capital Forum members, Amy Boersma, Satya Tanner and Naomi Campbell comment on how effective and efficient planning processes, with the right checks and balances are key to project success. Read more
CEF in the media  |  Jun 4, 2024

Victoria caps access for solar and wind in new renewable zones, to avoid curtailment and buoy investors

Renew Economy

NSW has been slow to build out transmission infrastructure for its REZs which slowed development within the zones and saw projects outside of them deprioritised, and has only just opened tenders for “access rights” to the new REZs≥ This has contributed to the state’s mammoth renewables slowdown, says Clean Energy Finance director Tim Buckley. “The devil will be in the detail,” he told Renew Economy. “If the Victoria scheme provides greater clarity on where firmed renewable projects can be located, and rewards hybrid renewable projects, that is an overall benefit. “We see that in China, where they actively develop renewable energy zones to maximise grid access by building wind and solar and battery storage and coal fired power plant projects together. “Start with the major constraint, which is grid transmission, and give investors confidence they won’t be constrained. “Investors need clarity and reduced risks from opaque approval structures and lack of visibility of where it’s best to put a renewable energy project. We need to deploy at speed and scale.” Read more
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