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Phil Johnson, Qld Senate for CCC, please respond

By anne goddard,


To Phil Johnson, Senate Candidate for the Climate Change Coalition (CCC) in Queensland:

Further to your reply to my article "dirty polices and practices"  in the comments section of our website .

It is good to see where you stand on the issue of nuclear power generation when you say: "I am commited to pursuing clean energy technology and therefore I do not support a nuclear powered energy solution because nuclear technology does not offer any benefit for energy supply and the problems with mining and waste management only compounds this lack of benefit."

You did not mention the water requirements for nuclear power generation which is also a very real issue, please see: Nuclear Power and water scarcity by Dr Jim Green.

You did not address the issue of uranium mining.

Will you support an expansion of the nuclear industry or do you wish to see uranium remain in the ground? 

You also omit geothermal energy production. I had hoped that a political party running on a climate change mitigation ticket would be placing goethermal power very high on their list of clean energy supply systems, particularly for industry.

You did, however, mention "Biofuel".

Biofuels are costly to our agricultural land and also to our native forests. Land used for food production is needed to produce food for humanity and our livestock.

Land under native forestation is currently sequestering CO2 (as it always has). Removal of established native forests for biofuel production will obviously not reduce CO2 from our atmosphere. Considering the production process for bio-fuel, eg. removal of existing vegetation, ploughing, planting, watering, feeding, havesting crop, transportation of crop to the final stage of burning/processing into fuel ... all stages of production adding CO2 to our atmosphere.

Does the CCC really want to be a proponent of Bio-fuels whilst running on a ticket to mitigate climate change? 

You also omitted to answer Greg Hopwood's question: "CCC Preferences" here .

I would also be interested to know who you will give your preferences to in the Qld Senate.


   

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