A new study has found that air pollution from NSW’s five coal powered stations carry a substantial health burden, leading to an estimated 279 deaths a year, mostly low- weight babies.
Ben Ewald, a GP and public health lecturer at the University of Newcastle said Australian power stations are operating without modern pollution control technologies, adding it was nothing short of a public health scandal.
Energy Australia said the report is inaccurate and strongly rejects the implication that their operations pose a risk to human health.