Forty six years ago the UK Chief Scientific Advisor wrote to the chief Civil Servant, saying that “a risk averse society might prefer nuclear power generation to fossil fuel burning.”
On the same day, a newspaper in Melbourne reported on testimony of US scientists to Congress about the dangers ahead.
April 16, 1980 – Melbourne Age reports “world ecology endangered”
Twenty years ago the Federal Environment Minister (rightly) derided his own government’s support for renewables as “Mickey Mouse”
April 16 2006 – Ian Macfarlane says renewable support schemes are “Mickey Mouse”
Eighteen years ago, miners, ecologists and capitalists tried to get Carbon Capture and Storage going. Oh dear.
April 16, 2008 – Aussie trades unions, greenies, companies tried to get CCS ‘moving.’