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Burning coal, what we badly need to transition off of, also produces more radioactive waste than a nuclear plant too.

God I wish all our worthless politicians weren’t in the coal companies pockets

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If by that you mean the liberal party that are continuing to push anything possible other than renewable energy.

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We had a solution for that though. Things like the carbon tax would have had a meaningful impact. And then the libs managed to make it toxic so it can’t be reintroduced

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Carbon tax is the only thing that would have made “carbon capture” viable. So the one tool they are trying to rely on, they directly destroyed themselves.

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