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ONE of Scotland's largest renewable-energy companies prompted protests yesterday by applying for compulsory purchase powers to help it to drive through its planned wind-farm developments across Britain.
CRE Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of ScottishPower, has submitted an application to Ofgem, the gas and electricity industry regulator, to be granted compulsory purchase powers under the 1989 Electricity Act to acquire land needed for a series of wind-farm schemes throughout the country.See the full content of this document
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Wind-Farm Company in Land Purchase Row
But pressure group the Renewable Energy Foundation (REF) condemned the proposals as an attempt to "ride roughshod" over t...
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