Fed: Rudd attacks Howard's plan to go nuclear =2

AAP General News (Australia)
04-28-2007
Fed: Rudd attacks Howard's plan to go nuclear =2

Mr Rudd said the government would have to fork out massive taxpayer funded subsidies
to businesses wanting to be part of Australia's nuclear power industry.

A better solution, he said, lay in alternative energy sources, particularly clean coal
technologies.

"Why not set for ourselves an objective, a mission, as we did in times past, to develop
a Snowy Mountains Scheme enthusiasm about the country - that we can in this country develop
a clean coal technology for the future?" Mr Rudd said.

"The yield for us in terms of the sale of that technology would be huge but the yield
for the planet would be even greater."

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