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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...
...KP&L has managed to get favorable treatment from the courts and the local press thus far, but this may have to change some in the coming weeks. Students and organizers around the state have started to wake up to the many problems which CCU has found in LP&L's plans and they are initiating efforts to counter KP&L's massive publicity campaigns...
...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...