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The Liddell Power Station near Muswellbrook in New South Wales is set to reduce its carbon footprint, with plans for a $10 million gas pipeline given the go-ahead.
The State Government has approved a proposal by Macquarie Generation to build a 25 kilometre pipeline to run west of the power station to the Mount Arthur coal mine and east to Ravensworth.
It will take coal seam gas from neighbouring coal mines and pump it back to the station to generate electricity.
Macquarie Generation spokesman Rob Cooper says it will reduce the amount of coal that is burnt at the power station.
“The benefit of the project is that it is a significant greenhouse gas saving,” he said.
“At the mine end the coal seam gas is currently flared or vented into the atmosphere so by using the gas that would otherwise would have been vented into the atmosphere and by it’s co-firing at Liddell, it has the potential to save over six million tonnes of CO2 a year.”
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