Mon 3 Sep 2007: Melbourne, Australia power station shut down by APEC climate change activists

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At 5 am Monday 3 Sep 2007, the big Melbourne high-polluting brown coal plant Loy Yang A was reported as shut down by climate change activists. The ABC in Gippsland reported a pre-dawn fence-climbing invasion of the power station, caused the stoppage of a coal loader; and that one unit of the four, was shut. Four giant bucket-wheel excavators operate 24 hours a day in the Loy Lang open cut mine, feeding coal directly to the boilers via conveyor belt The ABC reported no other units were operating at the time. http//:www. erisk.net reported NEMMCO market notices showed at 03/09/2007 00:30:17 in Notice ID : 18419 Loy Yang 1 LYA1 cut back briefly 05:40 to 05:55 by -71 MW “Reason: Rebid not received”. Price was not impacted by 8.16 am with price at about the level forecast at 4 am - between $40 and $50. Warm Spring conditions prevailed, with demand low. Loy Yang A has four generating units with a combined capacity of 2200 megawatts and is owned by GEAC, a consortium made up of AGL Limited, Tokyo Electric Power Company, Transfield Services and three superannuation funds. Loy Yang B has two units with a capacity of 1050 megawatts and is owned by UK group International Power.

Update: Activist group Real Action on Climate Change has claimed responsibility and posted images of their protest on their blog at http://realactiononclimatechange.blogspot.com/

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