Send your message: No New Coal Power in NSW

The Keneally government has plans for new coal-fired power stations in NSW that would increase the state's greenhouse gas emissions by 15%.

New coal-fired power stations will be an environmental and economic disaster for NSW. It will lock the state into a fossil fuel future and undermine jobs in clean energy industries.

Use this email petition to tell the Premier NO to new coal fired power in NSW. Your email will also be CC'd to the Minister for Energy, The Environment and Climate Change Minister, The Treasurer (as the minister responsible for the electricity privatisation process) as well as the leader of the opposition and relevant opposition spokespersons.

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Dear Premier Keneally

I am writing to you to ask you to ban new coal power in NSW.

As part of your government's so called "Energy Reform Strategy", the state-owned energy generators have lodged plans for two new power stations, one in the Hunter Valley and one near Lithgow in the Blue Mountains. According to the project applications currently being considered by the department of planning, new plants built on these sites could be coal-fired.

New coal power will be an environmental and economic disaster for NSW.

If your government is serious about reducing greenhouse gas emissions to a sustainable level, it must prohibit new coal-fired power stations in NSW. The two plants as planned would increase NSW's total emissions by 15%. These plants, if built will lock NSW into a fossil-fuel future and undermine growth in the renewables sector. This will destroy the opportunity for new, long-term jobs in a clean energy future.

These new plants would be expensive and unnecessary.

NSW does not need a new baseload power plant. Demand management, energy efficiency measures such as solar hot water, insulation and improved building design standards and decentralised renewable energy options like photovoltaics will go a long way to reducing baseload energy needs.

Your government has the power and must show the vision to ban new coal power in NSW. It should back up a prohibition with a plan to phase out coal-fired power plants and invest in large-scale renewable energy.

I urge you prohibit new coal power in NSW, start the process to phase out existing coal-fired plants and grab hold of the opportunity for a clean energy economy and future for NSW.

Yours Sincerely

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Send your message: No New Coal Power in NSW