U.K. ministers were Tuesday threatened with legal action from Greenpeace if they refuse to order a public inquiry into E.ON UK's application to build a coal-fired power station, the Financial Times reports Wednesday, citing legal letters and company e-mails.
U.K. ministers were Tuesday threatened with legal action from Greenpeace if they refuse to order a public inquiry into E.ON UK's application to build a coal-fired power station, the Financial Times reports Wednesday, citing legal letters and company e-mails.
Harrison Grant lawyers, acting on behalf of environmental group Greenpeace, sent a letter to U.K. Secretary of State for Business John Hutton saying that "It is not rationally or fairly open for you to conclude otherwise than that a public inquiry is appropriate in this case," the newspaper said, quoting from the letter.
An email exchange between E.ON UK, the U.K. arm of German utility E.ON AG (EOA.XE), and Hutton's Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, obtained by the Financial Times under the Freedom of Information Act, showed that E.ON UK expected a "positive determination" by Hutton "by the end of May 2008 latest, to meet the 2012 delivery deadline."
The U.K. government said no decision has been made and no formal timetable has been set. E.ON UK said it was a question for the government to decide.
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