Greenpeace Is Shopping for Dirty Coal-Power Plants

[Omaha Steve]

The environmental group wants to buy Germany’s brown coal mines and power stations—and then shut them down.



Activists protest at Vattenfall's coal power plant in Jänschwalde, Germany, on Aug. (Photo: Greenpeace)


http://www.takepart.com/article/2015/10/14/greenpeace-buy-power-plants?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2015-10-14


OCT 14, 2015 Taylor Hill is an associate editor at TakePart covering environment and wildlife.

Greenpeace, whose activists recently suspended themselves over bridges to block Arctic-bound oil drilling rigs, is now in the market for coal-fired power plants.

Don’t worry: Greenpeace doesn’t want to fire them up; it wants to shut them down.

In a letter sent to U.S. bank Citigroup, Greenpeace Sweden expressed interest in purchasing Swedish state-owned energy giant Vattenfall’s five mines and three power plants in Lausitz, Germany—home to the world’s largest reserves of heavily polluting lignite coal.

Also known as brown coal, lignite is a cheap energy source that comes with a high cost to the environment. When burned, lignite emits one-third more carbon dioxide per ton than black coal and three times more than natural gas.

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