Communities Opposed to New Coal at Hunterston
External links for more information:
Scottish Climate Change Law (pdf)
Clare Symonds (Planning Democracy) explains the planning process and what we can do
The Arran Voice
Lucy Wallace puts the case against a coal-fired plant at Hunterston
Dong tolls the knell for Hunterston coalBig Issue Scotland
Coal expansion plans condemnedCoal Action Scotland
News, views and action from communities and campaigns against new coal in Scotland
New Hunterston Coal-Fired Power Station – as transparent as a coal seamGuardian Newspaper
'Sloppy' errors in coal-power station plans, say campaigners
My country's resistance to nuclear energy is easy to understand, but its alternative is baffling
Scotland powered by patriotic flim-flam£3bn coal power plant will test strength of Ed Miliband's environment rules
New plant in Scotland will have to prove that carbon capture technology worksLargs and Millport Weekly News
North Ayrshire MP Katy Clark has called on the Scottish Government to extend the public consultation period for Ayrshire Power's application for a new coal power plant at Hunterston.
Consultation fears over coal station project
RSPB
Campaign page opposing the Hunterston Coal Station
Campaign with us - HunterstonScotland Against New Coal (SANC)
Plans for new coal at HunterstonStop Climate Chaos coalition
Decision to scrap Kingsnorth coal fired power station deals serious blow to Hunterston plans
Campaigners call on Scottish government to scrap dirty coal in Scotland.Sunday Herald
The man behind Peel is a billionaire tax exile backed by Saudi oil money.
Unmasked: the billionaire tax-exile behind Hunterston coal planWorldwide Fund for Nature
Hunterston Coal fired power station proposal – climate campaigners react
North Ayrshire and Arran MP Katy Clark is supporting the decision by campaigners to take legal action over the lack of consultation against Ayrshire Power's proposed Coal Plant.
MP supports Legal ActionScottish Labour Energy spokeman, Lewis Macdonald says,"a new plant at Hunterston now is the wrong technology in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Power station would undermine commitments on climate changeKenneth Gibson SNP MSP for Cunninghame North said "MSPs have looked at the arguments for and against Hunterston coal and decided that carbon capture and storage is unproven on a large scale. Development should take place on a more appropriate site such as Longannet. Ayrshire Power should cut their losses and not proceed."
Ayrshire Power should quit nowRoss Finnie, LiberalDemocrat MSP (West of Scotland): “I am not opposed, in principle, to a new coal fired station incorporating carbon capture but I think there needs to be a very full public debate on whether a new coal fired station without Carbon Capture should be approved. ... I have submitted a motion in the Scottish Parliament ...”
Finnie wants parliamentary debate on Hunterston Coal PlantPartick Harvie, Glasgow Green Party MSP said: "There is a real energy gap - Scotland could be powered almost six times over by renewable energy, yet Ministers of all parties have stuck religiously to dead end technologies like nuclear and coal."
New blow to coal plans at HunterstonAustralian Greens
Coal is toxicCoal is not clean and never will be
Christian Aid
No more dirty coalThe Coal Hole
Information about coal in the UK, and all the great things people are doing to take a stand against it.
There's a big black hole in UK climate policy...Coal in the UK
Mapping new coal all across Britain
General Information about the use of coal in the UKColumbia University: Mailman School of Public Health
Closure of Coal-Burning Power Plant in China Directly Linked to Improved Cognitive Development in Children
Study Shows Benefits of Closing Plants on Early Childhood NeurodevelopmentLetter to Gordon Brown about the links between coal power and climate change (pdf)
Friends of the Earth
“Coal-fired generation is historically responsible for most of the CO2 in the air today - responsible for about half of all carbon dioxide emissions globally”
NASA Goddard Institute
for Space Studies
Coal is the most polluting of all fossil fuels. Proposals for a new generation of coal-fired power stations across the UK are a cause for great concern.
No More Carbon Dinosaurs campaignCoal campaign
e-action (On behalf of CONCH)
Greenpeace
Carbon capture and storage won’t save the climate
False Hope (pdf; 128Kb)Coalfinger (spoof movie and information)
The connection between coal-fired power stations and global warming:
Climate change - coalThe case against coal
Frequently-asked questionsThe Guardian/Observer Online
One of the world's foremost climate experts launches an excoriating attack on Britain's long love affair with the most polluting fossil fuel of all
Coal-fired power stations are death factories.Observer investigation uncovers link between dramatic rise in birth defects in Punjab and pollution from coal-fired power station
India's generation of children crippled by uranium wasteThe Herald
Experts warn that coal-fired power stations will wreck Holyrood’s climate change targets
Power plans up in smoke?Independant on Sunday
The threat of global warming is so great that campaigners were justified in causing more than £35,000 worth of damage to a coal-fired power station, a jury decided yesterday.
Jury decides that threat of global warming justifies breaking the lawMIT
The prestigious Massachusetts Institue of Technology has an entire web site devoted to capture carbon techonolgies. Academic and extensive.The Carbon Capture and Sequestration Technologies Program @ MIT
New Scientist
"As for the dream of coal becoming a zero-emissions source of power - forget it."
Can coal live up to its clean promise?No new coal
Stop a whole generation of dirty powerStop Climate Chaos Coalition
A group of people dedicated to action on climate change and limiting its impact on the world's poorest communities. They demand practical action by the UK to prevent global warming rising beyond the 2°C danger threshold.
Quit dirty coal
Bad week for coal
TEAR Fund
Stop new coal power stations in the UK
Take action to stop new coal power stations now!Union of Concerned Scientists
Environmental impact of coal power
Air pollutionWastes generated
Environmental Law Centre
The Environmental Law Centre Scotland LtdKids4CleanAir
Super site on all sorts of air pollution issues for young people
Clean Air Kids: air qualityNational Planning Framework
“There is enormous potential to increase the generation of electricity from renewable sources during the next two decades so that by 2030 renewable energy can meet between 60% and 143% of Scotland's projected annual electricity demand.”
The Power of Scotland Renewed
Planning Democracy
Information about Planning DemocracyThe Power of Scotland Renewed
Joint document from WDM, RSPB, FoE and WWF
Power of Scotland Summary (pdf, 1.12Mb)38 Degrees
"38 Degrees is a new organisation which brings you together with other people to take action on the issues that matter to you and bring about real change in the UK."
About 38 DegreesScottish Government Energy Consents Unit
Energy Consents
The Offshore Valuation Group came together to answer a central question for the United Kingdom: What is the value of our offshore renewable energy resource?
What we found has exceeded our expectations. In harnessing 29% of the practical offshore renewable resource by 2050:
- the electricity equivalent of 1 billion barrels of oil could be generated annually, matching North Sea oil and gas production and making Britain a net electricity exporter;
- carbon dioxide reductions of 1.1 billion tonnes would be achieved by the UK between 2010 and 2050 – a major contribution towards 2050 climate targets;
- 145,000 new UK jobs could be created by industry.
The next four decades of technological development could enable us to harness a practical resource ten times the size of today’s planned deployments. Integration with neighbouring electricity networks though a ‘super-grid’ could provide access to a single European electricity market, enabling the UK to sell renewable electricity across the continent.
Read the full report:
The Offshore Valuation: A valuation of the UK’s offshore renewable energy resource (pdf; 105 pages; 5Mb)
