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US energy secretary: Australia should ‘get in the game of supplying uranium’

by admineconai February 18, 2025
written by admineconai February 18, 2025
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Chris Wright, the US energy secretary, has said that he “would love to see Australia get in the game of supplying uranium and maybe going down the nuclear road themselves”.

Australia is already the world’s fourth-largest producer of uranium, but nuclear power remains banned at national level. Wright was speaking at a major summit of international rightwingers in London, where he added that he was also “thrilled” to read recent reports about the development of shale gas in Australia, adding that it would be a “tremendous resource”.

Australia is also the world’s largest exporter of liquified natural gas, a proportion of which comes from fracking.

“I think Australia has a tremendous future, but it has some of the same struggles we have in the United States and even worse, in Europe, which is this desire for top-down control, for deciding what’s virtuous and what isn’t,” Wright told the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (Arc) conference.

“And this wholly incorrect belief that somehow there’s a clean energy and dirty energy; there’s good things and bad things – that’s just not how the world works.”

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Wright, appearing remotely, was interviewed at the event by the Australian journalist Chris Uhlmann, who said Australia has access to one-third of the world’s uranium and did not do any enrichment. He had asked Wright if the US would be prepared to work with Australia for energy security for both nations.

There was loud applause for Wright earlier in the same conversation when he described the aim of reaching net zero by 2050 as a “sinister goal” and “lunacy”, claiming Britain’s politics in the area had impoverished the country.

“I think the agenda might be different here than climate change. It’s certainly been a powerful tool used to grow government power, top-down control and shrink human freedom. This is sinister,” he said.

Wright, a former fracking executive who was confirmed in his new role earlier this month by the US Senate, also directly challenged the scientific consensus on the climate crisis.

Story was adapted from the Guardian.

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