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Munmorah clean coal pilot leads to climate dead end
Friday 04 July 2008
The carbon capture pilot facility to be officially opened today at a Central Coast power station by NSW Energy Minister Ian Macdonald is behind schedule and not yet working. It will do nothing to reduce the state's burgeoning greenhouse gas emissions, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Collapse of US clean coal facility another blow to NSW privatisation
Tuesday 05 February 2008
The decision by the US government to abandon the FutureGen carbon capture and storage project undermines yet another argument for privatisation of the NSW electricity industry, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
NSW minister and shadow agree: clean coal is an oxymoron
Monday 19 November 2007
NSW Opposition Energy Spokesperson Peter Debnam has joined Environment Minister Phil Koperberg in stating an important but self-evident truth of climate change. It is time for their state and federal leaders to listen, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Adjournment Speech: Climate Change and 'Clean Coal'
Thursday 08 November 2007
The politics of climate change response are being increasingly dominated by the promise of clean coal with damaging results for the urgent task of reducing carbon dioxide emissions. The excuse that coal can eventually burn without carbon dioxide emissions escaping into the atmosphere is the leading reason for not addressing the current and real relationship between the mining and burning of coal and global warming.
Koperberg digs in deeper on carbon burial spilt
Friday 28 September 2007
Environment and Climate Change Minister Phil Koperberg’s attempt to explain away his ‘almost oxymoron’ condemnation of ‘clean coal’ earlier this week has highlighted divisions within the Premier Iemma’s cabinet on carbon capture, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
The oxymoron has landed
Wednesday 26 September 2007
Plans to develop a pilot carbon capture ‘clean coal’ facility at Munmorah Power Station on the NSW Central Coast are nothing but an exercise in propaganda, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Koperberg breaks ranks on ‘clean coal’ myth and tells the truth
Monday 24 September 2007
The admission by NSW Environment and Climate Change Minister Phil Koperberg that clean coal is ‘almost an oxymoron’ undermines the NSW government’s continued support for the capture and storage of CO2 from coal burning power stations, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Clean coal a dangerous distraction
Friday 10 August 2007
The Iemma government should leave speculative experiments with new coal technologies to the mining companies and concentrate on renewable energy and efficiency gains to meet NSW’s electricity needs, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
Koperberg is dreaming: new coal generation will blow targets
Wednesday 25 July 2007
Climate Change and Environment Minister Phil Koperberg is misleading himself and the people of NSW if he thinks this state can build a new coal fired power station and still have any hope of meeting his year 2025 greenhouse gas emissions target, according to Greens NSW MP John Kaye.
