Greenpeace Is Shopping for Dirty Coal-Power Plants
The environmental group wants to buy Germanys brown coal mines and power stationsand 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.
Dont worry: Greenpeace doesnt 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 Vattenfalls five mines and three power plants in Lausitz, Germanyhome to the worlds 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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