Question:  ‘I wasn’t invited to the focus group at Balfron High School on the 9th March but want to comment on the scheme.  How do I do this?

Npower says: ‘npower renewables is aware that not everyone could attend the meeting on the 9th March.’

EVAG says:   People who wanted to attend the meeting were not allowed in, including property owners adjoining the proposed site, and even the BBC!

Npower continues: ‘If people who wished to attend had done so this would have skewed the results’

EVAG says Why, if answers were being obtained by the community, would this have mattered?  What results would have been skewed?  Answer – the figures and charts that npower produce, heavily loaded in npower’s favour.

Npower goes on: ‘The focus group meeting on 9th March was only one of numerous other opportunities npower is generating to ensure everyone has the opportunity to influence the development’

EVAG says: A public meeting called by Balfron Community Council in June 2006 produced no coherent strategy by npower.   They were not even able to properly answer a question with regard to the background of their own company! For a company that had to be forced by Community Councils to make its meeting on 12 June a public one, and even at that meeting avoided and side-stepped any sticky questions, the above statement by npower is outrageous. Npower purports, by virtue of its questionnaire and online interaction to take into account the community’s views.  Are you going to see those views in detail with facts to confirm what npower states to be the outcome?