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Environmentalists Denounce Move for New Coal Plants in UK
The British government will lose its leadership position on climate change and risk scuppering a global deal to cut emissions if it presses ahead with a new generation of dirty coal power, they say.
The US could now think twice before joining any post-Kyoto deal on climate change, the campaigners warn in their join letter to the UK foreign secretary David Miliband.
The heads of the Sierra Club, the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Natural Resources Defense Council say in their letter: "As proposed, these conventional coal plants lack any limits on their emissions of carbon dioxide and would drastically increase the UK's carbon dioxide emissions and make achievement of your stated pollution reduction goals extraordinarily difficult, if not impossible. Building new conventional plants and setting the UK up to fail and lose its leadership mantle will make our work in the US all the more difficult."
In the UK, there has already been heavy criticism of the plans to build new coal plants, without technology to capture and bury the large volumes of carbon dioxide emitted.
A recent report by the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR), a think-tank with strong ties to the ruling Labour party, said the European Union's goal of reducing emissions from the power sector and heavy industry through its emissions trading scheme would collapse if the new coal plants do come up in. And 75 more are in the pipeline across Europe.
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