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- From: dean@vexcel.com (dean alaska)
- Newsgroups: talk.environment
- Subject: Re: NEWS: Customers Ripped Off by Mt. Piper Power Station
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.161341.25638@vexcel.com>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 16:13:41 GMT
- References: <Greenpeace.29Jul1992.10pmA@naughty-peahen.org>
- Organization: VEXCEL Corporation, Boulder, CO
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- In article <Greenpeace.29Jul1992.10pmA@naughty-peahen.org> Greenpeace via Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu> writes:
- >[Greenpeace Press Release from Greenbase -- Redistribute Freely]
- >
- >CUSTOMERS RIPPED OFF BY MT PIPER POWER STATION: GREENPEACE
- >
- >According to a major 1989 report to the
- >Electricity Commission, there is a whole power station's worth of
- >energy available from cutting energy waste at less than the cost
- >of opening a new power station.
- >
- >"This report has now been gathering dust for three years. It's
- >scandalous that customers will have to pay more than they should
- >for basic services like heat, light and power simply because the
- >Electricity Commission doesn't want to adopt more economical ways
- >of meeting customers' needs.
- >
- >Mr Boyle is in Sydney 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.
-
- This parallels the posts I have been making about energy efficiency
- in the U.S. Apparently the same myopia and inertia infect power
- suppliers in other parts of the world, too. Does anyone have an
- address for the Stockholm Environment Institute?
-
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-
- dingo in boulder (dean@vexcel.com)
-