I WOULD urge readers to look at the ?new? information supplied by Peninsula Power in support of its planning application to build ?the largest biomass power station of its type in Europe? on Winkleigh airfield. An innocent could be taken in by the appearance that the information addresses concerns expressed by many in the over 800 letters of objection that have been sent so far. However, the new information mainly consists of more inaccuracies, unsubstantiated claims and promises. There are, though, very worrying issues that Peninsula Power is unwilling or unable to address. When the planning application went in a year ago, the environmental statement claimed that ?the application for the WINBEG PPC (pollution prevention and controls) permit has been made in parallel with the planning application.? After nearly a year of promises and excuses, Peninsula Power now states that the PPC permit will not even be applied for ?until planning permission is in place and the plant is ready for commission?. While this is extremely worrying for those who would live and work close by to WINBEG, many more in Devon should be concerned about the processing of cellulosic fibres from municipal solid waste. This is a new experimental technology and Peninsula Power will not say where the waste material would come from or where the vast processing site would be. All the company will say is ?It certainly will NOT be at Winkleigh?. This really is not good enough. Vast tonnages of municipal solid waste would have to be trucked from an extremely wide area to the CF processing plant. Various fractions would then have to be trucked away again for recycling or landfill, and the CF would be trucked to WINBEG. The number of HGV miles along our unsuitable Devon roads really would be incredible and further illustrates that claims that WINBEG would produce ?clean? energy are nonsense. The fossil fuel requirements just to get the fuels to the power station would be enormous. The more everyone looks at the detail behind WINBEG, the more apparent it becomes that Peninsula Power has no experience of waste management or bioenergy. WINBEG is a badly thought through scheme with no merit at all. If the plants ? at Winkleigh airfield and ? ? were ever constructed, the environmental damage would severely impact the development of appropriate waste and energy solutions. David Lausen Chairman Winkleigh Society