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Go-ahead for coal power station

Last Modified: 03 Jan 2008
By: Julian Rush

Britain's first coal-fired power station for 20 years gets the go-ahead from a council in Kent.

But environmentalists have claimed it would lock Britain into huge carbon emissions for decades to come.

Councillors in Medway approved plans from the energy giant E.On UK to replace existing units with two new ones, which they said would produce power more efficiently and cleanly than ever before.

It is now up to the government to make the final decision.