'Clean Coal' Con

Clean coal is an industry con job created by the coal industry spin doctors in the 1990s to counteract the dirty image and the poor environmental performance of the coal industry. Though the clean coal myth has been debunked the NSW Labor Government continues to back it. In 2008 it created a new Clean Coal Fund and committed over $100 million of taxpayer's money into researching and promoting clean coal technologies. The NSW June 2009 Budget allocated $16.5 million to the Clean Coal Fund for the year 2009-10.

The latest from our media monitor regarding developments in "Clean coal"

Click on these links to read the real story of coal’s deadly legacy

'Clean coal': A coal industry con
Lee Rhiannon on 'clean coal': the tactics behind the con
Watch Lee Rhiannon's YouTube video, "Clean Coal is a Con"
John Kaye on the 'convenient untruth' of clean coal
Watch John Kaye's YouTube video, "Phasing out Coal"
Greenpeace report False Hope: why carbon capture and storage won’t save the climate
Experts critical of 'clean coal': don’t listen to the spin, listen to the experts
Coal is not clean and never will be: by Dr. Pauline Roberts
Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Coal is the single greatest threat to civilisation and all life on our planet, writes Dr James Hansen, director of Nasa's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York.

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Greens MLC John Kaye's "No new coal, no electricity privatisation."

Read the Greens NSW coal policy at:

http//nsw.greens.org.au/policies/coal

Take Action!

Write to Premier Kristina Keneally, demanding an end to coal subsidies (including for 'clean coal research'), increased support for renewable technologies that can provide baseload power (eg. geothermal, solar thermal), and a moratorium on new coal-fired power stations.