Wellington council mayor Rod Buhr and his councillors have submitted a letter to NSW Planning Department against the site of the ERM gas fired power station. -
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''Following our fact finding trips to both Uranquinty and Oaky and weighed up all available information, council has reached a position where it no longer supports construction of the plant at the proposed site,".''We have considered issues surrounding noise, terrain, whether conditions and economic impact at arriving at this decision.'' he said. Wellington's mayor says the councillors still support the plant being built but not so close to an urbanised area..''The risk to the economic viability of Wellington, should a Uranquinty scenario be repeated is far to great.''