Go-ahead for coal power station
Updated on 03 January 2008
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.
