Western Power Distribution is a disgrace - there can be no other words to describe the UK subsidiary of Pennsylvania Power and Light, whose US headquarters in Allentown are pictured.
WPD is the company which has been trying for many, many years to turn Cardiff's Llanishen reservoir into a 324-home housing development.
They've lost numerous public inquiries and court hearings but still don't get the message.
WPD don't care about the environment, or the community, but are just determined to rake in fat profits, presumably for their US arm.
Their latest ploy is to drain the reservoir, which Julie Morgan, MP for Cardiff North has quite rightly described as the "most appalling act of vandalism".
WPD cannot be allowed to succeed and now is the right time to turn up the heat on their US masters, which talks good environmental policies but in Cardiff their subsidiary seems determined to destroy the local environment.
This is a fight Cardiff and indeed Wales cannot afford to lose. Let's hope Cardiff council and the Welsh Assembly Government can act to help stop this fantastic resource for the capital being lost.
One has to admire the battling qualities of the campaigners. Perhaps they now need to start kicking up a fuss in the US media by writing letters and contacting newspapers, radio stations and TV companies.
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