Coalition MPs dismiss International Energy Agency advice to ditch nuclear plans

Shadow energy minister Ted O’Brien says there is ‘no credible pathway to reaching net zero by 2050’ without nuclear energy.Shadow energy minister Ted O’Brien says there is ‘no credible pathway to reaching net zero by 2050’ without nuclear energy.

While details of the plan, including the location of up to six possible sites for nuclear plants, have yet to be announced, the Nationals leader, David Littleproud, said the Coalition’s goal was to plan for a “gradual transition from coal to nuclear, gas and renewables built in the right place and in the right concentration”.

O’Brien’s Nationals colleague, Keith Pitt, similarly dismissed Birol’s advice as coming from a “Paris-based” commentator, saying the IEA has had “more positions on energy advice to Australia than the Kama Sutra”.

The independent ACT senator David Pocock, a vocal advocate for renewable energy, said nuclear power “makes no sense in this country”.

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