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Coal plant a 'climate crime scene'

28 November 2008

A 'climate crime scene' has been declared at the site of a new coal-fired power station.

Protestors yesterday picketed the site of the £2 billion RWE npower plant in Cambois, Northumberland, with banners opposing the construction of new coal power plants.

Northumberland resident Shelley Bland told the Journal Live: "As well as this power station proposal, there are so many opencast coal sites planned around here. Once it starts, it is not going to stop, and it is not the answer to the climate crisis."

Dorothy Cambois, told the newspaper that "there is no such think as clean coal".

The company meanwhile claimed that new coal stations produce 20 per cent less carbon dioxide than older ones.

According to Electricity Info, npower generates 38 per cent of its electricity from coal, 46 per cent from gas and 11.2 per cent from nuclear. It trails the other energy providers on renewables, which are the source for just three per cent of its electricity.

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