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Greens want to give Parliament a say in nuclear cycle
Greens amendments to a bill on nuclear prohibition mean that if there is to be a Victorian plebiscite on nuclear activities, Parliament will decide the question.
 | Greens MLC Greg Barber said: "If the Government wants to fully protect Victoria's anti-nuclear status, they should entrench the prohibitions from the Nuclear Activities (Prohibitions) Act into the Victorian Constitution. Then no future State Government could go down the nuclear path without a referendum supported by Victorian voters. That's as strong a protection as we can possibly have under Victorian law". |
"We don't trust a future Labor or Liberal Minister to frame the question that will go to the people. Parliament should decide the question for any anti-nuclear plebiscite. This is a non-binding plebiscite and to have any political impact it needs to have credibility."
"Despite hundreds of billions of dollars of subsidies, nuclear power is hugely expensive, uninsurable, and in the US, provides a smaller proportion of their energy needs than wood. This is a phoney battle between Labor and Liberal, whose policies on all other nuclear issues are rapidly converging," Mr Barber said.
Film Night on behalf of the Dandenong Ranges Greens