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‘Dirty and dangerous’: AGL tops list of coal-fired plant breaches – Sydney Morning Herald
Three power stations owned by AGL were found to have breached their licences 111 times since 2015, accounting for about three quarters of all violations.
Those breaches cost the company about $1.3 million, including a penalty of $1.1 million imposed last year on the Bayswater plant for polluting a local creek by the NSW Environment Protection Authority.
The next largest penalty since 2015 was a $30,000 fine for Delta Electricity, operator of the Vales Point power plant, the data showed.
Of the seven plants slapped with penalties in the two states, Bayswater alone recorded 52, or about a third of the total, or almost double those at the ailing Liddell…
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