The
following petition has been posted on the 10 Downing
Street website by Annabel Eyres
We the undersigned petition the Prime
Minister to Stop foreign-owned utility companies from
ruining the British countryside.
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German
RWE Npower plans to turn picturesque Radley Lakes
in Oxfordshire into a fenced-off wasteland by replacing
the water in this local beauty spot with toxic ash
slurry from nearby Didcot Power Station. If this goes
ahead unchecked, it will set a dangerous precedent
for further destruction of local environments.
Today the
number of votes case sailed past the 500 mark.
[updated
02/04/2007]
Today,
on the first day of the public enquiry, the petition
jumped past the 1000 mark.
[update
21/09/2007]
The
petition closed with 1392 votes having reached 149th
place out of 8456 petitions (top 2%). At closure, it
was in the top 5% of all closed petitions. A government
response has been posted and sent to all petitioners.
