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Bayswater carbon pollution under legal challenge by NSW climate activists

Submitted by takver on Sun, 28/03/2010 - 5:28pm

Two members of Newcastle climate protest group Rising Tide are challenging in the NSW Land and Environment Court the amount of carbon pollution emissions allowed by the coal fired Bayswater Power Station owned by Macquarie Generation. Macquarie Generation produces 12 to 15 million tonnes of carbon dioxide pollution every year.

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