The figures are out and once again it's clear that coal-fired power is bad for our health.
Communities are being exposed to dangerous toxins like sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and particle pollution that cause serious health issues like asthma, heart attack, stroke and premature death.
The amount of toxic air pollution pumped out by Australia’s fleet of ageing coal-fired generators would be illegal in most other countries.
Yet the people in charge of protecting our health from pollution – the Environment Protection Authority NSW – continue to let ageing and failing power stations pollute unchecked.
This toxic industry has not ...
The figures are out and once again it's clear that coal-fired power is bad for our health.
Communities are being exposed to dangerous toxins like sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides and particle pollution that cause serious health issues like asthma, heart attack, stroke and premature death.
The amount of toxic air pollution pumped out by Australia’s fleet of ageing coal-fired generators would be illegal in most other countries.
Yet the people in charge of protecting our health from pollution – the Environment Protection Authority NSW – continue to let ageing and failing power stations pollute unchecked.
This toxic industry has not moved to control and reduce air pollution, despite technologies being readily available.
Our recent analysis of the National Pollutant Inventory revealed that at the Vales Point power station, emissions of deadly PM2.5 air pollution increased a whopping 3000% over 6 years.
279 people die prematurely each year in NSW as a result of toxic air pollution. Nationally this number is at 4800 and with coal-fired power stations responsible for an annual health bill of $2.6 billion, we must speak out.
Together with community groups, we’ve lodged a legal complaint with the Environment Protection Authority in NSW about the shocking increases in toxic fine particle pollution from the Vales Point Power Station.
Join the call and demand that the NSW Government and the EPA get Australia’s most toxic polluters to clean up its act.
Read the full legal complaint that we just launched with a coalition of health, environment and community groups and add your name to demand that the NSW EPA makes Vales Point coal-fired power station clean up its act.