Lingan power station
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Lingan power station is a 632-megawatt (MW) coal-fired power station in Lingan, Nova Scotia, Canada.[1]
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Location
The map below shows the plant in Lingan, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Background
The plant burns coal and features four boilers and two 152 m (500 ft)[2] chimneys. The plant consumes 1.5 million tonnes of coal per year and currently generates approximately twenty-five percent of the province's electricity, while producing roughly fifty percent of the province's air pollution, including hydrochloric acid, sulphuric acid, hexachlorobenzene and mercury.[3]
Retirement
In December 2018 the federal government finalized regulations requiring all coal-fired plants in Alberta, Saskatchewan, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia to be retired by December 31, 2029.[4] Unit 3 is scheduled to be retired once the Muskrat Hydro project comes online in 2020.[4]
Project Details
- Sponsor: Nova Scotia Power Inc
- Parent Company: Emera
- Location: Lingan, Nova Scotia, Canada
- Coordinates: 46.235541,-60.03927 (exact)
- Status: Operating
- Capacity: 4 x 158.2 MW
- Type: Subcritical
- Start date: 1979
- Coal Type: Bituminous
- Coal Source: Domestic
- Source of financing:
Resources and articles
References
- ↑ Lingan Generating Station, Wikipedia, accessed January 2019
- ↑ NPRI Data Search, Government of Canada, accessed 2011
- ↑ Lingan Plant Province's Top Polluter, Cape Breton Post September 24, 2003 (via Safe cleanup.com)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Swapping coal for natural gas not a solution, warns Ecology Action Centre, CBC, Dec. 14, 2018
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