Climate Action Projection at E.ON at the Maasvlakte in Rotterdam

Greenpeace projects action messages at the E.ON coal-fired power plant at the Maasvlakte in Rotterdam. In the past weeks many people have been able to send messages to the website of Greenpeace with the promise that Greenpeace will project these messages. The German electricity supplier E.ON wants to build a new coal-fired power plant at the Maasvlakte. This power plant will emit yearly the same amount of CO2 as 2 million cars. E.ON is ignoring all science around climate change by insisting on plans to construct eight new European coal-fired power plants. The plant in Rotterdam is intended to be the first, even though it has not yet been granted the necessary permits. Coal, the most polluting of all fossil fuels, is responsible for a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. Coal-fired power stations undermine European targets to cut emissions by 30 percent by 2020. E.ON has so far remained silent, despite Greenpeace’s request that it commits to reducing its CO2 emissions. The actions in Rotterdam are part of Greenpeace's global Quit Coal Campaign.