At night the flares of a giant natural-gas plant burn brightly in the city's skies from behind a high fence designed to keep local people out.

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Generally, the participants at the FERC hearings all expressed a preference for better sharing of information concerning pipeline capacity scheduled for power generation, individual power plant burn rates, fast notification of major operational changes, and coordination of maintenance work to both systems.

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The plant will burn 250, 000 tonnes of waste a year and some residents are worried about health risks.

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It said the plant would burn 250, 000 tonnes of waste a year, producing enough energy to power about 37, 000 homes.

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ScottishPower wants to convert the plant to burn gas, rather than coal.

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The plant will burn about 275, 000 tonnes of commercial waste a year from Plymouth, South Hams, Teignbridge, West Devon and Torbay according to Viridor.

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Also, Foster Wheeler builds power plant boilers that can be used to burn biomass as well as coal.

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The charm offensive also explains, without ever using the words "incinerator" or "burn", that the proposed "thermal conversion plant" will also pay its way by generating electricity.

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Power giant Drax plans to burn huge amounts of wood instead of coal at its North Yorkshire plant over the next few years.

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Producing fuel from plant crops is supposed to be greener than drilling for oil, and biofuels generally burn cleaner, too.

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