Barnaby backs coal unless Australians want nuclear power supply

By Chris Bath
Updated October 14 2018 - 4:44pm, first published 9:00am
Grasp the mettle: Barnaby Joyce said that if Australia wants zero admission then nuclear power is the obvious solution following the IPCC report. Photo: Gareth Gardner
Grasp the mettle: Barnaby Joyce said that if Australia wants zero admission then nuclear power is the obvious solution following the IPCC report. Photo: Gareth Gardner

Barnaby Joyce has called the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) recommendation to phase out coal by 2050 as “wrong and ridiculous”, while once again suggesting Australians need to look at nuclear power.

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