Germany, UK home to most of EU's dirty power plants - Reuters

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Germany, UK home to most of EU's dirty power plants
10 May 2007 00:01:17 GMT
Source: Reuters

GENEVA, May 10 (Reuters) - Most of the European Union's 30 most
polluting power stations, which together account for 10 percent of the
bloc's carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, are located in Germany and
Britain, the WWF said on Thursday.

In a report entitled "Dirty Thirty", the conservation group said Germany
and Britain were each home to 10 of the least environmentally efficient
plants in the EU.

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The 30 plants, which are all coal-fired, produce 393 million tonnes of
heat-trapping CO2, equal to 10 percent of all EU CO2 emissions, it said.
Carbon dioxide, mainly from burning fossil fuels, is widely blamed for
stoking global warming.

"The facts are clear: the power sector needs to phase out dirty coal as
soon as possible," Stephan Singer, head of WWF's European Climate and
Energy Unit.

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Read more: http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L09186237.htm

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The article goes on to say that WWF supports a carbon trading scheme
to encourage investment in cleaner power plants that will eventually
replace the "dirty thirty."

[NNadir]

1. Phase out coal?

Germany has no intention of phasing out coal.

It's building as much coal capacity as it can and at a breakneck pace.