The only thing as predictable as global warming causing more storms and more power outages is the political debate that follows.
Transmission lines wrecked by Tuesday’s wild weather.Credit: Jason South
After Tuesday’s storms and blackouts in Victoria came Wednesday’s press releases from Canberra. Familiar positions were rapidly occupied and defended.
Nationals leader David Littleproud issued a statement arguing that the collapse of transmission towers carrying power from Loy Yang in south-eastern Victoria underscored the vulnerability of Labor’s plan to replace the nation’s ageing coal power stations with renewable power generation and storage projects distributed across the country.
“If small-scale nuclear power plants were built where retiring coal-fired power stations are now, we could minimise the need for new transmission lines, reducing the risk of these........