Eggborough workers call on MPs to act to save power station

Hundreds of workers are calling on their local MPs to demand political action to save 800 jobs and safeguard the future of Eggborough power station in North Yorkshire.

Eggborough has been working for over two years on a biomass conversion project which was due to begin 6 January 2014. The project would have been Britain's largest infrastructure project in the first quarter of this year.

But the Department for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) altered the selection criteria of funding for projects just two weeks before the final announcement of successful applications, with the result that Eggborough was excluded from the final list.

Bosses at Eggborough have warned that without the biomass project the power station may have to close within two years.

Trade unions Unite, Prospect and the GMB have joined forces to campaign to save the plant and are urging energy secretary Ed Davey to rethink his decision which could see the loss of 800 jobs and potentially thousands more in the supply chain in rail, ports, logistics and engineering services.