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Vote opposes power station plan

 

MSPs signalled their opposition to a controversial new coal-fired power station.

Parliament backed the Green Party by urging ministers to reject an application for a new plant at Hunterston in Ayrshire. The 66-26 vote added to concerns that new carbon capture technology, which aims to remove environmentally-damaging CO2 emissions and pipe the gas underground, is not ready on a commercial scale.

Green MSP Patrick Harvie said: "This plant has been dogged by controversy from the start and ministers now face a possible judicial review if they try and force it through.

 
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