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UK sued for approving Europe’s biggest gas power station

(The Guardian, 30 Jan 2020) Andrea Leadsom overruled climate aims of government’s own planning authority.

The UK government is being sued for approving a large new gas-fired power plant, overruling the climate change objections of its own planning authority.

The plant, being developed by Drax in north Yorkshire, would become the biggest gas power station in Europe and could produce 75% of the UK’s power sector emissions when fully operational, according to the environmental lawyers ClientEarth, who have brought the judicial review.

The planning inspectorate recommended to ministers that the 3.6GW gas plant was to be refused permission because it “would undermine the government’s commitment, as set out in the Climate Change Act 2008, to cut greenhouse emissions” by having “significant adverse effects”. It was the first big project rejected because of the climate crisis.

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The Guardian, 30 Jan 2020: UK sued for approving Europe’s biggest gas power station

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