Environment lobby fired up over plans to burn woodchips at Redbank

Redbank power station near Yancoal's Warkworth coal mine outside Singleton. The coal-fired station shut down in 2014 in the wake of the collapse of owner Babcock and Brown.

Verdant Earth Technology has lodged a scoping report with the Department of Planning as the first step towards reopening Redbank Power Station near Singleton as a biomass generator.

Environment and conservation groups have vowed to wage a relentless campaign against the project that would consume about 850,000 tonnes of waste wood to produce energy.