Kingsnorth Coal Pull-Out

08 Oct 2009

Hackney North and Stoke Newington MP Diane Abbott welcomed the decision by power company E.ON to postpone the building of a coal-fired power station in Kingsnorth in Kent.

Commenting today Diane said:

“I have received many emails and letters from constituents who were incredibly concerned about the creation of an environmentally-unfriendly power station. I agree that we need to be focusing on new, clean, energy technologies not coal. E.ON have stated that they will begin thinking about investment in Kingsnorth again in two or three years. I just hope by then they will have either greatly progressed their carbon capture and storage technology or will have seen sense and put money into renewable energy resources.”   

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