6 January

The UK, which has a deeply conservative government, has gone from 75% of its energy coming from coal in 1990, to 2.1% today. That’s TWO-point-one. Those of you who get all excited over nuclear and ‘baseload’ - its use of nuclear has dropped as well in the same period. How long do we want to be the laughing stock of the world down under? Just long enough to be incinerated?