If you live in Newport Click Here to Object to the Power Station If you don't live in Newport Click Here to Object to the Power Station For more info on Biofuels for Electricity Click here. For more info on the Newport Power Station please scroll down. If you live in Newport you can also contact your local councillors about the Power Station and ask them to oppose it. To find out who your local councillors are go to http://www.writetothem.com/ and type in your postcode. You can them phone them up or visit them at their surgery, or alternatively write them a letter or an email. For contact details of councillors download the document below or see the Newport Council website What's Wrong with the Newport Power Station?A company called Vogen is planning to build a new electricity power station at the Alexandra Dock, Newport, South Wales. Newport City Council is now deciding whether to give planning permission. The power station will burn 40,000 tonnes of biofuel (vegetable oil) a year, including virgin vegetable oil and palm oil. The power station will lead to increased local air pollution, global climate change, rainforest destruction, extinction of animals in the rainforest, world food shortages and human rights abuses. If this power station is built: · Local air quality will get worse –Vegetable oil burning emits nitrogen oxides and small particulates linked to respiratory illnesses and heart problems. · It will contribute to climate change. Biofuel production releases more greenhouse gases through land conversion and chemical fertiliser use than the fossil fuels they replace. · It will make world food prices higher as vegetable oil will be used for electricity instead of food. The power station in Newport will burn over 100,000 litres of vegetable oil (most likely palm oil) a day, or over 40,000 tonnes of vegetable oil a year. If the vegetable oil were produced in the UK (eg from oil seed rape) it would need 10,000 hectares of farmland to grow the crops. This farmland could feed about 35,000 British people on a typical meat/veg diet. · People in other areas of the world, like South-east Asia and South America could be displaced from their homes to allow the necessary vegetable oil plants to be grown. · It will NOT provide local residents with cheaper electricity. So far there are no biofuel power stations in the UK although planning permission has been granted to build one in East London. In Germany, people living near their biofuel power stations suffer noise and smell, and at least one power station there has been refused planning permission. For more information on biofuels see facts on biofuels and biofuels for electricity. |
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Campaign: Stop Newport Biofuel Power Station |