‘No bigger rent-seeking parasite’ than nuclear industry, Matt Kean tells former Coalition colleagues in heated debate

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Kean, a former Liberal energy minister turned Climate Change Authority chair, clashes with senators Gerard Rennick and Ross Cadell

Climate Change Authority chair Matt Kean has told a parliamentary hearing that the nuclear industry is ‘trying to pull one over the eyes of the Australian public’.Climate Change Authority chair Matt Kean has told a parliamentary hearing that the nuclear industry is ‘trying to pull one over the eyes of the Australian public’.

Kean said the nuclear industry was “there propping up the coal industry, who want to extend their business models, squeeze out the last bits of profit at the expense of Australian consumers”. Kean told Cadell “most rational people do trust the CSIRO, this is the body that developed wifi” and that their advice “is good enough for me and it should be good enough for our political leaders”.“I know you’re trying to get your grabs up on Sky at the moment,” Kean told the senator.The Coalition has proposed seven sites where it says it would eventually replace coal-fired power plants with nuclear plants but not how much this would cost.

 

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