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Ministers ‘misled’ environmental impacts of new power plant, campaigners say
The low winter sunshine highlighting the volume of emissions from Drax Power Station near Selby, Yorkshire, December 9, 2005

SCOTTISH government ministers were misled on the potential environmental impacts of a new gas-fired power plant, according to environmentalists.

New research commissioned by Friends of the Earth Scotland (FoE) found that emissions from the proposed Peterhead 2 plant — to be built alongside an existing gas-fired facility — could amount to 1.25 million tonnes of carbon dioxide annually.

This is five times higher than estimated in the developer’s environmental impact assessment, submitted as part of the planning process.

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