Green groups fear water going up in steam


	Green groups fear water going up in steam

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5-17-2007 11:37 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/aada571f-5b0b-4462-a06f-6b56b0340692/19678C46-65CA-4328-BD64-787525C18123/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/green-groups-fear-water-going-up-in-steam/2007/05/17/1178995324339.html" href="http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/green-groups-fear-water-going-up-in-steam/2007/05/17/1178995324339.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.theage.com.au</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/green-groups-fear-water-going-up-in-steam/2007/05/17/1178995324339.html"><P>ENVIRONMENT groups have called for a coal-fired power station
proposed for the Latrobe Valley to be scrapped due to Victoria's
drastic water shortage.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/green-groups-fear-water-going-up-in-steam/2007/05/17/1178995324339.html"><P>Greenpeace and Environment Victoria have called on the Bracks
Government to withdraw $50 million in funding promised for the
400-megawatt coal-fired power station to be operated by HRL at Loy
Yang. The Federal Government has also set aside $100 million for
the power station, which would open in 2009.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/green-groups-fear-water-going-up-in-steam/2007/05/17/1178995324339.html"><P>The environment groups say the state's coal-fired energy
generators are already putting Victoria's water resources under
huge stress.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/green-groups-fear-water-going-up-in-steam/2007/05/17/1178995324339.html"><P>Greenpeace energy campaigner Mark Wakeham said the five power
stations in the Latrobe Valley used the equivalent of almost a
third of Melbourne's total water use.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/19678C46-65CA-4328-BD64-787525C18123/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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