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The Coal Impacts Index is the most comprehensive list of breaches, breakdowns, and pollution events at Australia’s coal fired power stations ever assembled.
The Index uses a variety of data sources to track four main kinds of ‘incidents’ at the 16 coal power stations in New South Wales, Queensland and Victoria, that make up Australia’s National Electricity Market (NEM).
Licence Breaches
Breakdowns
Toxic Air Pollution
Emissions
The NSW Environment Protection Authority alleges Bayswater Coal Power Station did not comply with a licence condition, in reference to lime softening slurry overboarding from a pipeline before traveling overland along a drainage line.
The NSW Environment Protection Authority alleges Eraring Coal Power Station did not comply with a licence condition, in reference to excessive dust emissions from the vicinity of the Eraring Power Station Ash Dam.
The NSW Environment Protection Authority alleges Liddell Coal Power Station did not comply with a licence condition, in reference to point 13 recording a pH of 6.1 during routine daily sampling.
The NSW Environment Protection Authority alleges Vales Point Coal Power Station did not comply with a licence condition on 8 occasions, in reference to alleged exceedance of the Total Suspended Solids (TSS) concentration limit.
The NSW Environment Protection Authority alleges Bayswater Coal Power Station did not comply with a licence condition, in reference to an incident involving a diesel spill into Tinkers Creek, from a blackstart generator day tank.
The NSW Environment Protection Authority alleges Bayswater Coal Power Station did not comply with a licence condition, in reference to exceedance of a limit due to gasket failure on pump allowing brine concentrator effluent to enter onsite drains.
The NSW Environment Protection Authority alleges Bayswater Coal Power Station did not comply with a licence condition, in reference to exceedance of pH (lower limit) due to overflow of low pH demin water, from demin plant to Tinkers Creek.
The NSW Environment Protection Authority alleges Bayswater Coal Power Station did not comply with a licence condition on 8 occasions, in reference to exceedance of pH (upper limit) due to multiple events “such as broken pipes, blowdown condenser tube leaks, etc”.
The NSW Environment Protection Authority alleges Bayswater Coal Power Station did not comply with a licence condition on 3 occasions, in reference to less than 90% data capture for ambient monitoring at EPA Points 4, 5 and 6.
The NSW Environment Protection Authority alleges Liddell Coal Power Station did not comply with a licence condition, in reference to an ash pit overflow event where ash slurry overflowed into onsite EEC.
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The data in the Coal Impacts Index is collated from a number of sources, including government reports and tracking, corporate databases, research reports and self-reported data from power stations. For more information about the individual sources for each of the incidents listed in the index please see the Sources page.