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Activists unfurl a banner outside Hazelwood power station, Victoria, Australia's most polluting coal-fired plant.
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The power plant, known as Hazelwood, should have closed this year.
Instead, Victorian premier Steve Bracks has kept it running and
polluting, even though the clean energy alternatives are good for jobs,
the economy and the environment.
Greenpeace activists, including crew from the Rainbow Warrior, have occupied a loader in Hazelwood's brown coal pit and awarded the plant "1st prize" as the developed world’s most polluting power station
Climbers hung a banner reading "Quit Coal" from the power station’s south wall while a crowd at the front entrance staged a mock opening of a clean energy power station.
Greenpeace climate and energy campaigner Mark Wakeham said: "If premier Bracks implemented a target of 20 per cent clean energy by 2020 and solid energy efficiency measures, we could retire the polluting dinosaur that is Hazelwood power station and we would have more jobs, cleaner air and a safer climate."
Victoria is responsible for nearly a quarter of Australia’s greenhouse pollution because of its heavy use of brown coal for electricity generation. Every tonne of coal we burn comes back to bite us as climate change, making Australia a hotter, drier and poorer country.
"It beggars belief that anyone would choose instead to extend the life of Hazelwood, by 30 years, locking us into a coal future and slamming the door on thousands of jobs in Victoria’s fledgling clean energy industry."
Join Greenpeace in pressuring Mr Bracks to quit coal by shutting down Hazelwood.
Greenpeace activists, including crew from the Rainbow Warrior, have occupied a loader in Hazelwood's brown coal pit and awarded the plant "1st prize" as the developed world’s most polluting power station
Climbers hung a banner reading "Quit Coal" from the power station’s south wall while a crowd at the front entrance staged a mock opening of a clean energy power station.
Greenpeace climate and energy campaigner Mark Wakeham said: "If premier Bracks implemented a target of 20 per cent clean energy by 2020 and solid energy efficiency measures, we could retire the polluting dinosaur that is Hazelwood power station and we would have more jobs, cleaner air and a safer climate."
Victoria is responsible for nearly a quarter of Australia’s greenhouse pollution because of its heavy use of brown coal for electricity generation. Every tonne of coal we burn comes back to bite us as climate change, making Australia a hotter, drier and poorer country.
"It beggars belief that anyone would choose instead to extend the life of Hazelwood, by 30 years, locking us into a coal future and slamming the door on thousands of jobs in Victoria’s fledgling clean energy industry."
Join Greenpeace in pressuring Mr Bracks to quit coal by shutting down Hazelwood.
