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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: miraje who wrote (19357)	1/2/2008 11:45:28 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36921

Council backs coal power station news.bbc.co.uk Kingsnorth power station sits on the banks of the Medway Councillors in Kent have voted in favour of building a coal-fired power station, the UK's first for 24 years. Medway Council gave its approval to a planning application by energy company E.ON UK to build two new cleaner coal units at Kingsnorth, near Rochester. But opponents say the move would be a serious setback to efforts to cut the UK's carbon emissions, with Greenpeace labelling it "dinosaur technology". The final decision on the plan will now be made by the government. The last coal-fired plant was built in Northern Ireland 24 years ago. E.ON says it would demolish an existing power station at the Kingsnorth site and replace it with one that is 20% cleaner. The council does not have the power to grant or reject planning permission, but was asked to give its views to the government. It had received nearly 9,000 objections, more than 8,000 of them in the form of e-mails, postcards and letters in standard Greenpeace wording. But earlier officers recommended the council did not object. Bob Marshall-Andrews, Labour MP for Medway, said the application was of national and international importance because of its impact on the environment. E.ON UK says that, if approved, the power station would be up and running by 2012 and would provide enough energy for 1.5m homes.