Counting chickens before they hatch

A few years ago there was a lot of controversy over a proposal by Mighty River Power to re-fire the Marsden B power station using coal.

A long drawn out series of protests and legal actions eventually led the electricity producer to drop the venture.

Greenpeace claims this one as a victory over coal. It isn't however. The plant is being dismantled and shipped to India, where, guess what - it's going to burn coal.

In my opinion, if anything, it's worse than had we fired it up, as I suspect maintenance and monitoring will be much less in India than it would've been here. A loss, not a victory for green ideals.