Keneally gives coal comfort
Greenpeace will hold a lunchtime rally in Macquarie Street outside Parliament House on Thursday February 25. This is part of their ongoing No New Coal campaign which we will be seeing and hearing a lot more of throughout 2010.
According to Greenpeace, the Keneally Government is on the verge of approving two new coal-fired power plants for NSW. Each plant will produce 2000 megawatts of dirty power per year, with one to be situated near Lithgow in the Blue Mountains and the other at Muswellbrook in the Hunter Valley.
The Government has argued that it will be “up to the market” to decide whether the approved plants will run on coal or cleaner gas power. But campaigners say that in both regions all infrastructure is already in place for coal and that without clear carbon price signals, there is only one choice for the market to make.
Activists also claim that the decision the State Government is about to hand down will result in an additional 20 million tonnes per year of new greenhouse pollution in NSW.
For more information visit http://www.greenpeace.org.au/climate/GI-nswcoal.html and get to the rally next week to find out more.
