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{{#badges: Climate change CoalSwarm|CoalSwarmNavbar-UnitedKingdomandcoal}}'''Ratcliffe Power Station''' is located in Ratcliife on Soara 2, Nottingham and is 000-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station owned by [[E.ON UK]]in Nottinghamshire, England.
==Location==The map below shows the plant located in Ratcliife on Soar, Nottingham.{{#display_map:52.865268,-1.255|width=600|height=400|type=satellite|zoom=15}} ==Background== It comprises four 500 MW subcritical units and has an installed capacity of 2,000 megawattscommissioned in 1968. This power station is fitted with a Flue Gas Desulphurisation unit to reduce sulphur dioxide emissions.<ref>United Kingdom Quality Ash Association, [http://www.ukqaa.org.uk/PowerStation.html "Power Station Locations and Capacities"], undated but after 2006, accessed June 2008.</ref><ref name="Appendix E">Mott MacDonald, [http://www.berr.gov.uk/files/file14151.pdf "UK Coal Production Outlook: 2004-16"], Department of Trade and Industry website, Final Report March 2004. See Appendix E: UK Coal Power Stations, page E-1 at the end of the report.</ref>
==Protest against Ratcliffe plant==
In July 2011, the convictions of the 20 protesters for trying to shut down the UK's second largest power station was quashed by the Court of Appeal. The ruling came after it was revealed the group had been infiltrated by undercover police officer Mark Kennedy, who was said to have spent seven years working undercover in the green movement across Europe. The case was heard by the Lord Chief Justice, Lord Judge, sitting with two other judges. Lord Judge said the convictions were unsafe "because of significant non-disclosure" of material "which would have been supportive of the defence case."<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14203873 "Ratcliffe power station protesters cleared on appeal"] BBC, July 19, 2011.</ref>
==Estimated cost of air pollution from plant==
A 2011 analysis by the European environment agency (EEA), [http://www.eea.europa.eu/pressroom/newsreleases/industrial-air-pollution-cost-europe 'Revealing the costs of air pollution from industrial facilities in Europe,'] estimates that air pollution from industry costs Britain £3.4bn-£9.5bn a year in health and environmental damage. When CO2 costs are included, the figure rises to £9.5bn-£15.5bn. The industrial facilities covered by the analysis include large power plants, refineries, manufacturing combustion and industrial processes, waste and certain agricultural activities. Emissions from power plants contributed the largest share of the damage costs (estimated at €66–112 billion).
A small number of individual facilities cause the majority of damage costs. Three quarters of the total damage costs were caused by the emissions from just 622 industrial facilities – 6 % of the total number. [[Longannet Power Station]], Cottam, [[Ratcliffe Power Station]], and West Burton power stations together emit more than 30m tonnes of CO2 and other pollutants and cost the economy up to £2.3bn a year.<ref>[http://www.eea.europa.eu/pressroom/newsreleases/industrial-air-pollution-cost-europe "Industrial air pollution cost Europe up to €169 billion in 2009, EEA reveals"] European environment agency, Nov 24, 2011.</ref>
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