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New report: Peter Dutton’s nuclear power plan to cost $4.3 trillion
Michael West Media
The CEF report says both the Coalition’s and the Government’s estimates of the price tag of building a nuclear industry in Australia restrict their analyses largely to costs incurred in the energy system itself.
Moreover, Frontier Economics’ modelling is “predicated on advocating for an energy pathway (“Progressive Change”) that differs dramatically to the energy pathway (“Step Change”) deemed most likely by the Australian Energy Market Operator’s (AEMO) Integrated System Plan (ISP) and consistently advocated by the Labor Government.”
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Think tank claims Dutton’s nuclear plan to cost up to $5.2 trillion by 2050
Capital Brief
The context: CEF director Tim Buckley said Frontier’s nuclear report is “riddled with shortcomings” which “completely undermine its credibility as a serious energy transition analysis”.
What they said: “This is as weak as the opposition leader recently declining to accept the settled climate science because he is ‘not a scientist’,” said Buckley.
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The Coalition’s bright idea on gas
The Saturday Paper
“The Australian Energy Market Operator report for the December quarter of 2024 shows domestic gas use accounted for only about 16% of total gas produced in eastern Australia,” says Buckley. “We exported the other 84% of all the gas produced in eastern Australia. That’s the most important point: we don’t have a shortage.
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