DerivedEnvironment, Land and Settlement
Energy Policy: General Doctrine
Energy policy should be judged by reliability, strategic resilience, affordability, environmental stewardship and long-term human welfare rather than loyalty to one technology.
Policy catalogueEnvironment, Land and Settlement
DerivedFossil Fuels
Fossil fuels should not be prohibited ideologically irrespective of their strategic or economic function, but unnecessary pollution and avoidable dependency should be reduced.
Position
Coal, oil and gas should be judged by environmental costs, reliability, strategic necessity and available substitutes.
Policy
- No immediate blanket prohibition of fossil fuels.
- Preserve necessary supplies for transport, industry, heating and strategic reserves while alternatives are developed.
- Reduce severe air pollution and environmentally destructive extraction practices.
- Encourage efficiency where it reduces both cost and resource consumption.
- Avoid dependence on hostile or unreliable foreign suppliers.
- Transition away from particularly damaging uses when reliable and economically realistic substitutes exist.
- Avoid transition schedules that destroy essential industrial capacity or make basic energy unaffordable.
Implementation note
Implementation note
The manifesto requires stewardship but does not specify fossil-fuel phase-out dates.
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Nuclear Energy
Nuclear power may be permitted and supported where it is safe, reliable, strategically useful and environmentally responsible.
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Renewable Energy
Renewable energy should be supported where technically sound, economically reasonable and compatible with landscapes, communities and grid reliability.
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Climate Policy
Environmental stewardship includes prudent climate mitigation and adaptation, but climate policy does not justify unlimited centralized control or policies that impose disproportionate hardship for negligible benefit.
Every question in this catalogue carries a position. Entries marked Derived follow the direction of the manifesto without their implementation being fixed, and several name the legal or treaty change they would require. Positions are revised as the movement decides; the version and date above say which text you are reading.