Rising Tide Australia

• Friday, September 26, 2008
• 8:30am - 9:20am 
• Under the Clocks, Flinders St Station
• Melbourne

As part of a week of national climate actions, the coal cleaning ladies will show you just how clean coal can be. Hair nets on, scrubbing brush and detergent in hand. Frock up in your hottest cleaning lady outfit, and come and help clean some coal.

Why are we cleaning coal?
There are plans to allow a new coal power station to be built by HRL Ltd. in Victoria's Latrobe Valley. Proponents of this plan claim that it will be a 'clean coal' power station, since it's going to be 30% cleaner than a standard brown coal power plant. But burning brown coal is the most greenhouse polluting way to produce electricity. Its 33% more polluting than standard black coal, so a 30% reduction in greenhouse emissions will make it almost as clean as a normal black coal plant. The proposed HRL power station has already got $150 million in taxpayers money through state and federal government grants.

For more info see:
http://www.foe.org.au/resources/chain-reaction/chain-reaction-editions/chain-reaction-102-april-2008/burning-coal-at-three-minutes-to-midnight