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- From: Greenpeace via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
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- Subject: NEWS: Victoria Needs Jobs, Not Loy Yang B
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- Date: 30 Jul 1992 05:25:19 GMT
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- [Greenpeace Press Release from Greenbase -- Redistribute Freely]
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- VICTORIA NEEDS JOBS NOT LOY YANG B: GREENPEACE
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- CANBERRA July 22, 1992 (GP) Victoria's job-seekers would be
- better off if Victoria shelved the Loy Yang B power station
- project, a Greenpeace energy expert said today.
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- Greenpeace International's Director of Energy Policy and
- Research, Stewart Boyle said Victorian and international
- experience showed programmes to use energy more sensibly
- create twice as many jobs as power stations, and can also
- deliver services like heating, lighting and power to
- customers more cheaply.
-
- "It is economically and environmentally irresponsible to complete
- a new power station when there are cheaper and cleaner options
- that would create more jobs, particularly during such a severe
- recession," Mr Boyle said.
-
- "Victoria is fortunate in already having a small energy
- efficiency programme run by the State Electricity Commission
- of Victoria. Expanding this programme so that Loy Yang B wasn't
- needed would be a better investment for Victoria's job seekers,
- Mr Boyle said.
-
- Brown coal is one of the dirtiest ways of producing electricity.
- When operating, Loy Yang B has the capacity to substantially
- increase carbon dioxide pollution from Victoria at a time when
- the State is committed to reducing this pollution by 20 percent
- by the year 2005.
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- Mr Boyle is in Melbourne to preview the findings of a worldwide
- study, carried out by the Stockholm Environment Institute, which
- shows that a combination of energy efficiency improvements, clean
- renewable energy technologies and some fuel switching can meet
- the energy needs of all regions of the world, including
- Australia, at the same or lower cost than continued reliance on
- fossil fuels.
-