Protest Brown Coal Plant Voitsberg

Greenpeace and local people protest against the plans to reactivate the coal power plant ÖDK 3 in Voitsberg. Just in front of the town hall activists construct a tall chimney, from which visible smoke is coming out, to imitate the planned power plant. People are holding signs reading "Nein zu ÖDK 3"- "No to ÖDK 3" (the latter being the name of the plant). The coal power plant was shut down in 2006 because of lacking profitability. However, now the company „A-Tec Industries“ wants to re-activate it.

Unique identifier: GP01YJV

Type: Image

Shoot date: 05/11/2009

Locations: Austria, Central Europe, Voitsberg

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Barbara Tschann

Ranking: ★★★★★★ (B)

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Protest Brown Coal Plant Voitsberg

Greenpeace and local people protest against the plans to reactivate the coal power plant ÖDK 3 in Voitsberg. Just in front of the town hall activists construct a tall chimney, from which visible smoke is coming out, to imitate the planned power plant. The coal power plant was shut down in 2006 because of lacking profitability. However, now the company „A-Tec Industries“ wants to re-activate it. There is a lot of resistance against it, also because Voitsberg and its environment suffered from bad air and fine dust pollution for many years during and after the active power plant. The power plant would make Austria’s CO2 emission rate go up by almost 2,5 tons yearly.

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