Friends of the Earth Scotland are running a ‘cyberaction’ campaign on the issue of increased use of coal.
Scotland has two power stations’s that make use of coal – Longannet and Cockenzie – both of which are approaching the ends of their working lives. They currently make up almost 20% of Scotland’s CO2 emissions. There are plans to extend the life of Longannet possibly with the use of, as yet commercially unproven technology, called “carbon capture and storage (CCS)”. Cockenzie isn’t planned to have it’s life extended but there are proposals to replace it with a gas powered one.
This is not what Friends of the Earth Scotland state in their cyber action. They refer to both power stations having their lives extended – fueled by coal. They are being misleading in this.
Ministers in the Scottish Government intend to issue new guidance which covers coal power before the end of 2009. They have the power to prevent any new coal power capacity being given the go-ahead, without an ‘emissions performance standard’.
Such a standard could place a strict limit on emissions from any new coal power capacity, ensuring that either they use technology to capture the majority of the CO2 and store it underground (using commercially unproven technology – my comment) or that it doesn’t get permission to be built.
The Scottish Government needs to be credible on climate change, However, Friends of the Earth Scotland also need to be more accurate in some of their information.
We could allow coal power to be used provided CCS can work in a commerical environment. It is an energy source available to us. It’s not perfect but then neither is nuclear power.
Please use this link to find the content of FoEScotland’s cyberaction and see for yourself what they’re saying.
The way round the misleading info is to copy and paste the content into your own email system, edit it to suit your own needs, find the email addresses for your MSPs and then send it without using the cybertool.
Carbon Dinosaurs
Friends of the Earth Scotland are running a ‘cyberaction’ campaign on the issue of increased use of coal.
Scotland has two power stations’s that make use of coal – Longannet and Cockenzie – both of which are approaching the ends of their working lives. They currently make up almost 20% of Scotland’s CO2 emissions. There are plans to extend the life of Longannet possibly with the use of, as yet commercially unproven technology, called “carbon capture and storage (CCS)”. Cockenzie isn’t planned to have it’s life extended but there are proposals to replace it with a gas powered one.
This is not what Friends of the Earth Scotland state in their cyber action. They refer to both power stations having their lives extended – fueled by coal. They are being misleading in this.
Ministers in the Scottish Government intend to issue new guidance which covers coal power before the end of 2009. They have the power to prevent any new coal power capacity being given the go-ahead, without an ‘emissions performance standard’.
Such a standard could place a strict limit on emissions from any new coal power capacity, ensuring that either they use technology to capture the majority of the CO2 and store it underground (using commercially unproven technology – my comment) or that it doesn’t get permission to be built.
The Scottish Government needs to be credible on climate change, However, Friends of the Earth Scotland also need to be more accurate in some of their information.
We could allow coal power to be used provided CCS can work in a commerical environment. It is an energy source available to us. It’s not perfect but then neither is nuclear power.
Please use this link to find the content of FoEScotland’s cyberaction and see for yourself what they’re saying.
The way round the misleading info is to copy and paste the content into your own email system, edit it to suit your own needs, find the email addresses for your MSPs and then send it without using the cybertool.