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