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Niall: taking the wind out of EdF's sails?

Fellow press officers Graham and James have already written about how they spend their days. I spend mine in a similar way. So now I've got to pad this piece out for another hundred words or so.

Which is pretty much the opposite of what I normally do.

Many of the campaigners here hold a wealth of knowledge and expertise in their tip-top brains. I then take their carefully considered words, which are based on scientific evidence, honed by years of expertise, and butcher it into a couple of sentences that a fourteen-year-old should understand. So, rather than padding out, I, erm, pad in.

But some people might already know that. Not because they've got a fine feeling for the life of a press officer, thanks to James and Graham. But because they're spying on us.

Argie burst into the press office a few days ago to give us the news that the nuclear fanatics at EDF have become embroiled in a bit of a scandal. They've been charged with spying on Greenpeace in France.

Now, given that EDF are trying to scupper plans for renewable energy in the UK, it's not incredible that they might be spying on us too.

So, we asked them.

The French government-owned company formed, apparently, "a team" to deal with their answer. It took them just about a week to reply. And they didn't answer the question. All a bit poisson-y, non?

Have a look at their reply here, I don't think our response to this one will need padding out.