Count Scotpowula Rises From his Grave

After months of indecision, Scottish Power has risen from the grave where they have lain since October 23rd when Cheshire County Council responded to the manifest will of the people of Cheshire, by throwing out the application to build a huge gas-plant at Byley in Cheshire. This time, Scottish Power hope to get their way by coming back with another application, changing details of their original plan to make it seem less threatening: a key element being to replace gas-turbine compressors with electric compressors.

But John Halstead, Chairman of the protest group 'Residents Against the Plant', that delivered such a total demolition of Scottish Power's earlier proposals, commented: 'It's laughable! Scottish Power claim that electric compressors will be quiet and non-polluting. But anyone who's heard a vacuum cleaner, knows how noisy even domestic electric machinery can be - let alone the monsters that Scottish Power would put into Byley. And as for being pollution-free, this would only move the pollution elsewhere - to the power stations burning extra fuel to drive the electric compressors." Added Dr John Edwards, RAP's Press Spokesman: "This proposal won't pull the wool over anybody's eyes. It's the same wretched plan - but with its fingers crossed and its hat turned backwards. The gas plant is still totally un-necessary in national terms, and is still just a spiffing wheeze to make vast profits for Scottish Power, while despoiling our local environment. We are ready, willing and able to fight on, and we have no doubt that the people of Cheshire will show that they are as firmly against this "new" plan as they were against the old one." Dr John Edwards, Press and Media Officer