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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Tory Shepherd

Community groups furious Coalition nuclear plan would go ahead even if locals oppose it

Port Augusta
Port Augusta is one of the sites proposed in the Coalition’s nuclear power plant plan. Opponents of the plan say it’s ‘probably the most stupid place to put a nuclear power station in the world’. Photograph: Brook Mitchell/Getty Images

There is a “growing backlash” to the Coalition’s nuclear plan, with community groups furious at the lack of consultation and angered that the policy would not give local communities the power of veto and that nuclear plants would be built regardless of local opposition.

Opponents say the pro-nuclear lobby group Nuclear for Australia has been hosting information sessions but that it makes it overly difficult for people to attend and ask questions, and is not able to answer those questions that are posed.

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