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INDIA’S PRIME MINISTER HIGHLIGHTS THE STUPIDITY OF AUSTRALIA’S BAN ON NUCLEAR ENERGY

Источник: https://harryr.substack.com/p/indias-prime-minister-highlights

By Cliff Reece

If only India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, had said what cartoonist Johannes Leak has indicated in his cartoon!

It would undoubtedly have caused a major diplomatic incident - but also a good many laughs among those of us who despise the Albosleazy government’s ridiculous ban on the civil use of nuclear energy.

Civil use of nuclear energy utilizes controlled nuclear fission to generate electricity, produce medical isotopes, and power industrial processes. It has nothing even remotely connected to nuclear weapons.

As the world’s second-largest source of low-carbon power, it provides massive baseload energy with virtually zero greenhouse gas emissions during operation, making it a critical asset in the clean energy transition.

Australia and India have just reached a deal to export Australian uranium to India for use in their nuclear energy industry.

India has long eyed Australia’s uranium reserves to help meet its target of increasing its nuclear energy capacity 10-fold by 2047.

“Australia and India are close partners and even closer friends,” Prime Minister Albanese told reporters in Melbourne last Thursday, after finalising the deal with the visiting Indian Prime Minister.

The arrangement facilitates Australian uranium exports to India to help increase the latter’s share of emissions-free baseload power while also providing an additional market for the Australian resources sector.

Though both nations agreed to a nuclear cooperation pact in 2014, uranium exports have been limited over concerns they could end up in India’s nuclear weapons program.

The new agreement ensures nuclear fuel is used solely for peaceful purposes, such as energy generation.

Modi said India’s relationship with Australia presented “historic opportunities” for both countries to cooperate across several areas.

Australia’s technology, capital and resources could help accelerate India’s energy transition, Modi said.

“We have historic opportunities to cooperate in this field,” Modi said, as he urged Australia’s business community to invest long-term in India’s road, port, rail and urban infrastructure projects.

“India provides a safe, stable and sustainable growth option for your funds,” he said.

After meeting Modi at the business event, Albanese called the Indian leader a “living bridge” between Australia and India, ‌saying Modi’s ⁠vision had helped reshape the roadmap for Australia’s economic engagement with India.

India is Australia’s fifth-largest trading partner after China, Japan, the USA and South Korea, while around 1 million people in Australia claim Indian ancestry, out of a population of 28 million.

Last Thursday evening, there was heavy police presence outside an indoor arena in Melbourne, where Modi addressed an estimated 30,000 expatriate Indians.

Modi noted that this was his third visit to Australia as prime minister, after trips in 2014 and 2023.

His first visit ended a 28-year gap since the previous visit by an Indian prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi, in 1986.

“It’s a hat-trick this time,” Modi said as the crowd chanted “Modi, Modi” and waved their mobile phone torchlights.

“This shows the heights the India-Australia ⁠relationship has reached,” he said, adding that the Indian diaspora in Australia was the driving force behind his outreach.

Worming her way into the occasion, Jacinta Allan, Victoria’s controversial premier, said Victoria respects India and values its people.

“We welcome your students, your businesses, your families, your ideas,” she told Modi. “India is not a country we trade with, it is a ⁠country we trust.”

Hopefully, Indians living in Victoria will see through her childish attempt to curry favour with them in order to gain their votes in November.

As to “trust”, if only Victorians could trust her in relation to the CFMEU and the extent of her involvement in alleged corrupt activities on taxpayer-funded projects!

At a federal level, how is it possible for Albanese to wax lyrical in public about the trade in uranium to India for nuclear energy and yet continue to support the ban on its use for exactly the same purpose in Australia?

It’s totally inexcusable. Albanese should immediately lift the ban and allow the market to determine the feasibility of nuclear energy generation in Australia.

The primary roadblock to this happening is the imbecilic attitude of our Minister for Climate Change & Energy, Chris ‘Blackouts’ Bowen, who lies to the public every time he claims that renewables are the cheapest form of energy when a quick glance at our electricity bills prove the exact opposite!

He needs to be replaced with someone who has Australia’s best interests at heart – not just personal glory travelling on taxpayer-funded trips to gabfests overseas to meet with other equally dim-witted climate alarmists.

Imbecile-of-the decade Chris ‘Blackouts’ Bowen tries to justify his existence!

Thanks To Reuters and Johannes Leak for his wonderful cartoons.