{"id":42110,"date":"2025-08-04T05:34:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T05:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/42110\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T05:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T05:34:08","slug":"diggers-dealers-2025-day-1-of-the-annual-mining-forum-in-kalgoorlie-boulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/42110\/","title":{"rendered":"Diggers &#038; Dealers 2025: Day 1 of the annual mining forum in Kalgoorlie-Boulder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The conversation has turned to nuclear, and with plenty more lashings for renewables efforts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">Dr Chris Keefer, who is also President of Canadians for Nuclear Energy, says the mining industry need look no further than Ontario as a reference case for using nuclear energy to support mining.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">And as for green steel, a nascent industry being explored by Fortescue, BHP and Rio Tinto \u201cwe\u2019re jut chasing our tail\u201d, Dr Keefer says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The pursuit of net-zero is a noble goal, he continued to tell the audience, but he said the commitment to it was delusional.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1ix6vwn-StyledParagraph e4e0a020\">The pro-nuclear pair will be followed by presentations from Paladin Energy and Boss Energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The conversation has turned to nuclear, and with plenty more lashings for renewables efforts. Dr Chris Keefer, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[64,63,99,36971,6827,44],"class_list":["post-42110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-kalgoorlie-miner","tag-mining","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}