Part of 1. 1. Questions to the First Minister – in the Senedd at 2:01 pm on 24 January 2017.
The court case was last September. RWE and the member state, which is the UK Government, were found guilty of allowing illegal levels of pollution from Aberthaw power station. Since then, there’s only been one letter by NRW to the company, and that hasn’t been responded to. There’s been no change to the permit for this pollution and Public Health Wales confirmed to me last week that 1,150 early deaths take place annually in Wales because of nitrogen dioxide pollution, which is the pollution emerging from Aberthaw power station. Why are we allowing such a situation, where there is this pollution coming from a power station that breaks all the rules and it is allowed to happen months after a court decided that this needed to be tackled?