It was nearly a year ago now when Australia’s biggest electricity producer, and its biggest coal generation company AGL Energy was marking the closure of the ageing and increasingly decrepit Liddell coal fired power station in the Hunter Valley. At the time, a couple of leading Coalition politicians, including Nationals leader David Littleproud and energy spokesman Ted O’Brien were standing in front of cameras saying that generators like Liddell – even though they had become basically non-functional – should not be closed down. At least not until nuclear was available. AGL’s senior executives were hosting media at ... (full story)