Coal-fired power stations at Lake Macquarie and Muswellbrook tracked by NASA, report shows

By Joanne McCarthy
August 19 2019 - 12:30pm
Emissions: Part of Vales Point coal-fired power station at Lake Macquarie. A new report by Greenpeace has listed Lake Macquarie as one of the world's hotspots for sulphur dioxide air pollution emissions in 2018 because of coal burnt at Vales Point and Eraring power stations. Picture: Bradley Smith.
Emissions: Part of Vales Point coal-fired power station at Lake Macquarie. A new report by Greenpeace has listed Lake Macquarie as one of the world's hotspots for sulphur dioxide air pollution emissions in 2018 because of coal burnt at Vales Point and Eraring power stations. Picture: Bradley Smith.

HUNTER coal-fired power station centres at Lake Macquarie and Muswellbrook are in the world's top 100 hotspots for damaging sulphur dioxide air pollution, an analysis of NASA satellite data released today shows.

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