Comments on: Replace Hazelwood – Petition Now Online!

By: Andrew S

Andrew S — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 03:33:53 +0000

The photo shown is doctored – Hazelwood actually doesn’t emit much in the way of visible pollution from its stacks; the exceptions are when the units are returned to service or the electrostatic precipitators are clanged together to prevent particulate pollution from entering the atmosphere. If you want to see a poorly performing plant, visit Rockhampton and see Stanwell – 24/7 there’s a brown haze over everything (and the government owns that plant, not the private sector)

That said, there was meant to be money raised from the carbon tax for a fund to progressively shut down the most carbon intensive industry (Hazelwood is a prime example) – but that’s now been scuttled and money sent to consolidated revenue. Very sad.

By: Pablo

Pablo — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 02:19:22 +0000

Hi Jon,

I’m not sure what you base your views on? You say YCAN should get their facts straight but where are the facts in your comment?

First of all – how much cleaner could Hazelwood get? How does that compare with what the climate science says we need to reduce our emissions to? Figures please!

It seems to me that any emissions from Hazelwood is still a hell of a lot more emissions than the zero emissions from renewable energy. And since we are already at around 396 parts per million of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, and we need to get BELOW 350ppm – then emissions have to go to zero and carbon taken out of the atmosphere.

How will Hazelwood being slightly less filthy achieve that? It can’t.

Hazelwood has to be urgently replaced with renewable energy.

Not one single person is saying it needs to be shut down straight away before a renewable replacement is built – you are using a straw man argument there.

but it is certainly possible to build enough wind and baseload solar thermal to replace it within a few years. In fact, over the last few years the equivalent of Hazelwood has been taken off Australia’s electricity demand just by people using less electricity!

Replacing Hazelwood is possible and also extremely necessary.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:33:10 +0000

Hazelwood units 1 & 2 has just been modified and are cleaner than some of the other units in the local area and could be made much more efficient if required! You guys need to get your facts straight! Think the best resolution is to keep the plant but make it more efficien. At the end of the day it produces 25% of Victoria’s BASE LOAD capacity and you ain’t gonna replace that in a hurry. Turn Hazelwood off now and you can kiss goodbye to electricity for a few years, can you afford to do that?

By: Carmel Lyddy-Meaney

Carmel Lyddy-Meaney — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 09:08:00 +0000

Change to clean energy now!