Protest Brown Coal Plant Voitsberg

Greenpeace and local people protest against the plans to reactivate the coal power plant ÖDK 3 in Voitsberg. The yellow banner reads: "Herr Bürgermeister Meixner. Keine Dreckschleuder in Voitsberg. ", meaning: "Mr. Maire Meixner, no dirt sling in Voitsberg" and on the white sign you can see the words "Bezirk Voitsberg, Höchste Krebssterblichkeit", in english: "County of Voitsberg, highest cancer mortality rate". 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: GP01YJT

Type: Image

Shoot date: 05/11/2009

Locations: Austria, Central Europe, Voitsberg

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Barbara Tschann

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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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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