1.   Electricity generating companies are running down stocks and cutting purchases.

2.   They will be doubtful if the little Englander view prevails both here and in the boardrooms of the generating companies.

3.   Proposed restrictions on emissions of nitrogen oxides from power stations have been watered down to meet the concerns of the newly-privatized electricity generating companies, claim environmentalists.

4.   The prospectuses of the two new generating companies, National Power and Powergen, both include warnings that tight environmental restrictions would have a damaging effect on potential profits.

5.   Nuclear Electric, the state-owned nuclear generating company, has drawn up plans to extend the life of its seven Magnox power stations.

6.   The new plant is being researched by a consortium of British Coal, the PowerGen electricity generating company, and the GEC Alsthom engineering company.

7.   Another set of measures aims to encourage generating companies to produce electricity at the lowest economic and environmental cost.

8.   The other generating company, PowerGen, has been burning orimulsion on an experimental basis under less strict control regulations in force at the time of licensing.

9.   And it says The Tory government which must which must take responsibility for setting up a rapacious duopoly of generating companies.

10.   Planning permission was granted two months ago but the generating company, National Power, has only just decided to go ahead.