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Asian Renewable Energy Hub ... blocked (for now). Who remembers Kelly's Bush? You probably need to have been alive in the 1970s in Sydney to have even heard of it. It was (and is) some 7 hectares of bushland on Sydney's North Shore and is sometimes regarded as the birth place of environmentalism in Australia. There was a fierce battle to save those 7ha from development. The Builders Labourers Federation put a "black ban" on the site; meaning no work. The word soon morphed in

Preamble You could be forgiven for not realising that the recent (May 2021) IEA Roadmap to net-zero by 2050, for energy emissions, was recommending that 100 big nuclear reactors be built during the next decade; and 200 in the decade after that; as well as opposing any (more) premature closures of operating reactors. The ABC (via Reuters) mentioned nuclear power precisely once in this report, and you could be forgiven if you didn’t realise the implication that we’d need hundre