Unions and business worry ‘a nuclear submarine parking lot’ will displace offshore wind and container terminal jobs
branch of the Maritime Union of Australia, said the alternative plans for the Port Kembla outer harbour were as a base to develop offshore windfarms and a smaller overflow terminal for containers, instead of Port Botany.
The South Coast Labour Council secretary, Arthur Rorris, told reporters on Tuesday the base amounted to a “a nuclear submarine parking lot, not a shipbuilding base”, which would put “a nuclear target on our backs”.
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