Anglesea Power Station

The  Anglesea Power Station is owned by Alcoa of Australia and is located near Anglesea, approximately 95 kilometres south-west of Melbourne. Coal for the power station is supplied from the Anglesea mine, which produces approximately 1 million tonnes of coal a year. The mine is also owned by Alcoa.

The 150 megawatt power station is located near Anglesea and in 2009 it was estimated to have emitted 1.317 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (Mt CO2e.) The power station produces approximately 40% of the power required by Alcoa's Point Henry aluminium smelter near Geelong.

A review of the Victorian power grid in 2003 stated that the power station has an average sent out thermal efficiency of approximately 27.7%.

Handout from carbon tax package
Alcoa of Australia received $14,901,959.75 of the $1 billion cash payments given out in 2011/12 to the operators of the most polluting coal-fired power stations. The cash was paid from the Energy Security Fund which was established as a part of the carbon tax legislation passed in 2011.

Criticism of Anglesca Power Station
Opponents of the Anglesea mine note that the mine and coal-fired power station is located less than 1.5 kilometres from homes and a school. These individuals not that air pollutants emitted from the power station can impact human health.

In August 2012 Greg Barber, a Greens representative in the Victorian parliament, announced that he was introducing a motion to remove Alcoa's exemption from the Freedom of Information Act. Barber also announced that he would also introduce a motion "for the government to table in Parliament an Air Emissions Study & Human Health Risk assessment that was conducted for Alcoa in 2008, which has been denied to the public under its Freedom of Information exemption."

"Alcoa has released its health risk assessments to the public in relation to other facilities around Australia; in fact, they are on its website for all to see. You have to ask yourself why Anglesea is the exception. People who live near the Alcoa power plant and coal mine have a right to know what impacts the pollution might be having on their health," he said.

National Pollutant Inventory Data
The Australian's Government's National Pollutant Inventory lists emissions from the Anglesea power station for 2008/2009 as being:

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