Coal Power Online

A personal message from Africa as to why we need to say “NO” to any new coal fired power stations in the UK.

What’s that smell? Why are we all getting sick?

In a small Island on the great Susquehanna River lie 3 miles from each other, 3 power plants, each with its own pros and cons; the first, 3 mile island nuclear power plant, in Goldsboro, PA - a plant that almost melted down and could have melted all of us down - Unit 1 is still operating as a nuclear plant, while Unit 2 is not a nuclear plant anymore (accident in march, 1979). The second is Conewago Hydropower plant, it is a clean and safe source of energy, and in the case of the Susquehanna River, which is already so polluted, and whose wildlife must be bionic by now, it leaves a small environmental impact. The third and last is Brunner Island Coal Fired power plant, which according to many sources (you can google it - look at results 3 - inf. if you look at results 1 and 2 you will be directed to the operating website, which of course will boast how clean its own plant is - that is BS) is one of the 50 dirtiest, most polluting coal power plant in America.

Environmental Defense ad urges Texas citizens to help stop TXU’s proposed coal-fired power plants.

The second annual Climate Camp in the UK was held 4-11 August 2008 at Kingnorth in Kent to protest against the building of a new Coal Power station. This is a film about the march on Kingsnorth on the Saturday of the camp.

Check out this new video by Greenpeace which features a song “It’s like paying someone to be a pr*ck”, written by The Chaser’s Andrew Hansen and recorded by a new group, the “Coaly Moleys”.

What would you do with $1.2 billion dollars? Give it to a big, greedy polluter or invest it in renewable energy?

Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, is planning to compensate coal power companies for the introduction of emissions trading and we have only six weeks to stop him!

http://www.greenpeace.org.au/yourcalloncoal

You can help the campaign by posting this video to your site, your facebook, and sending it on to your friends.

As the coal industry met for its annual shindig to applaud Energy Minister Malcolm Wicks’s decision to allow a new generation of climate-damaging coal power stations, we stepped in to give the speech he should have given.

Security personnel from PLTU Tanjung Jati B coal power plant in Jepara, Central Java fired five gunshots and drew knives as activists from Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior, today climbed the coal plant´s cooling tower and loading crane hanging banners that read “Coal Kills Climate.”

Campaigners gathered outside power company E.ON’s offices in London to protest against the plans to build a new coal power station in Kingsnorth

Workers from from Panay Power Corporation surrounded the Greenpeace “climate defenders camp” with bamboo and tarpaulin fence at a proposed coal power plant site in Baranggay Ingore, Iloilo City about 600 Kms south of Manila. Greenpeace activists have camped there for 3 days by erecting tents and a tower with banners “Quit Coal, Save the Climate”.

A video about Midwest Generation’s toxic coal power plant and the harm it is causing in Chicago’s Little Village neighborhood.