Queensland LNP breaks with federal branch to oppose nuclear power

One of the biggest detractors of the federal Queensland Liberal National party’s push to investigate nuclear energy as a potential power source for Australia has come from within its own house.

The Queensland Liberal National party says renewable energy
 is more affordable and carries fewer risks than those
associated with nuclear energy.

The state LNP opposition has publicly declared its opposition to making any changes to the current bipartisan ban on nuclear energy generation, declaring the government would be better served in its goals by focusing on renewable energy sources, in a marked split from their federal state colleagues.

Australia is once again looking at nuclear energy as a potential solution to its power woes, after a group of Coalition MPs, led by a cohort from Queensland, pushed the federal party room into investigating the prospect, through a parliamentary inquiry.

Read the story from The Guardian by Amy Remeikis - ”Queensland LNP breaks with federal branch to oppose nuclear power.”