Word: kp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THIS WEEK A KANSAS DISTRICT COURT must consider the objections of Concerned Citizens United, Inc. (CCU) to Kansas Power and Light Company's plan to build a new power plant. Harvard is KP&L's sixth largest shareholder. The CCU is made up of 35 farmers, who stand to lose 12,800 acres if the independent public utility succeeds in its land-taking action...
...farmers have filed a 51-page brief with the Court outlining their objections to current KP&L plans. They question several of KP&L's key assertions about the need for a new plant and the excessive amount of land KP&L wants to acquire by right of eminent domain...
...claims the amount of land requested is almost ten times that used for similar coal-burning plants, and that KP&L does not need to build a plant as large as 2800 megawatts to meet its forecasted energy needs over the next 15 to 20 years...
...sworn affidavit, a Kansas State University biologist told the court this week that a study he made for KP&L last spring was only intended as a description of the plant site. KP&L has said that the biologist. Richard Marzov. did a comprehensive environmental impact report of the planned power plant...
Harvard may not have a direct role to play in all of these happenings way out in Kansas, but if the major stockholders in KP&L don't take some responsibility in the working of the company who will...