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Scottish Power hires private security firm Vericola

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 Scottish Power is also listed as a client of
 * [[Scott Porter Research and Marketing Ltd]] in 2008 <ref>[http://www.scottporter.co.uk/clients.htm Scott Porter Research and Marketing Ltd, Clients]</ref>
 ===Lobby connections===

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 ==Structure==
-:Scottish Power has a number of divisions and subsidiaries:
+Scottish Power has a number of divisions and subsidiaries:
 *[[Scottish Power: Divisions]]
 *[[Scottish Power: Subsidiaries]]

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 [[Image:Glasgow.JPG|right|140px|thumb|Glasgow, Scotland<ref>[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow  Glasgow image]</ref>]]
-Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and was Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange''', as well. The Spanish group [[Iberdrola]] made an £11.6bn takeover bid in 2006. The offer was formally approved by shareholders at an EGM on 30 March 2007, effectively creating Europe's third largest utility company.
+Based in Glasgow, Scotland, '''ScottishPower Plc''' is a vertically integrated energy company and was Britain's fifth-largest energy supplier. As part of the utilities industry, it is the distribution network operator for the central and southern Scotland and the Merseyside and North Wales regions. The company also supplies electricity and natural gas to homes and business around the United Kingdom and generates power for supply to the grid. It owns '''[[PPM Energy]]''' in the United States and is quoted on the '''London Stock Exchange''' and has a secondary listing on the '''New York Stock Exchange''', as well.
 :Scottish Power has a number of divisions and subsidiaries:
 *[[Scottish Power: Divisions]]
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 ==History==
-In 1991, [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privatisation from the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry, having officially formed the year before. Scottish industry was organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, which survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom (previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies and two power generators).
+In 1991 [[Scottish Power]] prepared for privatisation from the previously nationalised Scottish electricity industry, having officially formed the year before. Scottish industry was organised on an integrated generation, distribution and supply basis, which survived the privatisation to become a model for the rest of the United Kingdom (previously the UK government had privatised the English and Welsh electricity industry by splitting the market into 12 regional electricity companies and two power generators).
 [[Scottish Power]] was formed from the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').

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 [[Scottish Power]] was formed from the larger of the two Scottish electricity boards, the '''South of Scotland Electricity Board''', whilst the other, the '''North of Scotland Hydro Board''', eventually became part of the '''Scottish and Southern Energy Group''' (the nuclear power stations in Scotland were spun off into a third company, '''Scottish Nuclear''', which was not sold off with [[Scottish Power]] and '''Scottish Hydro Electric''', but was sold later as part of '''British Energy''').
-==Company Chronology==
+==Company chronology==
 *1990 - [[Scottish Power]] was officially founded
 *1991 - prepared for privitisation from state-owned [[Scottish Electricity]]
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 *[[Peter Hickson]] Joined the Board on 1st September 2006.
-===Management Team===
+===Management team===
 * [[Nick Horler]] Chief Executive
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 <ref>[http://www.scottishpower.com/ManagementTeam.asp Meet the Board]</ref>
-===Previous Members===
+===Previous members===
 * [[Vicky Bailey]] Former American non-Executive Director
 * [[Charles Berry]] Former Executive Director, UK
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 * [[Sheelagh Duffield]] Former Company Secretary
 * [[Stephen Dunn]] Former Director, Human Resources and Communications
 ==Fat Cat payoffs==
 [[Scottish Power]]'s former chief executive [[Ian Russell]] and three colleagues received £10.9m for pay and pension compensation. The sums have been branded 'obscene' by the [[Scottish National Party]] energy spokesman [[Richard Lochhead]], and come to light just three months after they warned customers about inflation-busting bill hikes.
-Mr. Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.
+Russell, who left in January of 2006 after five years as chief executive, received a £2.3m compensation payment as well as benefiting from a resultant pension top-up of £2.7m. The compensation sum is more than three times his salary of £648,000, while his pension windfall nearly doubled his total entitlement to £6.8m. His colleagues [[Charles Berry]] and [[David Nish]], who both left the firm in September of 2006, pocketed a total of £2.6m and £2.2m in extra compensation and extra pension sums respectively. And [[Judi Johansen]], the former head of the company's [[PacifiCorp]] arm that was sold in 2006 as well, walked off with a total of £1.1m.
 The figures are published in Scottish Power's 2005/06 annual report and accounts, and are on top of their normal pay and pension entitlements totalling a further £10.5m. The plc made £675m profit before tax in the financial year to March 2006. [[Scottish Power]] raised gas prices by 15% and electricity by 8% in March of 2006, only to warn that bills would rise again due to high wholesale costs. <ref>[http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=410010&in_page_id=2 "Sacked power chiefs get 'obscene' pay-off"]</ref><ref>Terry Macalister  [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2006/dec/27/energy.business BP joins renewable power campaign group], ''The Guardian'', 27/12/06, accessed 22/02/11</ref>
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 ===Delegating dirty work to private security firms===
-Different from corporate espionage between two private firms, cases of corporate espionage against the public are being uncovered. Arguably the very industries whose environmental and social impacts are being challenged are delegating their dirty work to private security firms.
+Different from corporate espionage between two private firms, cases of corporate espionage against the public have been uncovered. Arguably the very industries whose environmental and social impacts are being challenged are delegating their dirty work to private security firms.
-Responding to ''The Guardian'' after Scottish Power, [[E.ON]] and [[SRG]] were exposed for employing the private security company [[Vericola]], who was allegedly infiltrating campaign groups,
+Responding to ''The Guardian'' after Scottish Power, [[E.ON]] and [[SRG]] were exposed for employing the private security company [[Vericola]], who was allegedly infiltrating campaign groups:
 :[[E.ON]] said it had hired [[Vericola]] and another security firm, [[Global Open]], on an "ad hoc" basis as its executives wanted to know when environmentalists were going to demonstrate at or invade its power stations and other premises, as they had done in the past. The [[E.ON]] spokesman said it asked [[Vericola]] only for publicly available information and if Todd (CEO of [[Vericola]]) and her colleagues had obtained private information, they had done so "under their own steam". [[SRG]] and Scottish Power did not comment.<ref name="Evans1">Rob Evans and Paul Lewis [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/feb/14/energy-firms-activists-intelligence-gathering Revealed: how energy firms spy on environmental activists] ''The Guardian'', 14/02/11, accessed 22/02/11</ref>

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 ==Scottish Power hires private security firm Vericola==
-===Delegating their dirty work to private security firms===
+===Delegating dirty work to private security firms===
 Different from corporate espionage between two private firms, cases of corporate espionage against the public are being uncovered. Arguably the very industries whose environmental and social impacts are being challenged are delegating their dirty work to private security firms.
 Responding to ''The Guardian'' after Scottish Power, [[E.ON]] and [[SRG]] were exposed for employing the private security company [[Vericola]], who was allegedly infiltrating campaign groups,
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 Scottish Power's director of security [[Gordon Irving]] is a former senior police officer who joined the firm in 2001 after 30 years in [[Strathclyde Police]] where he was head of special branch. Leaked documents to '''The Guardian''' in 2011 exposed his emails to private spying company [[Vericola]], which was gathering intelligence on the [[Climate Camp]] campaigns.<ref name="Evans2">Paul Lewis and Rob Evans [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/feb/14/environmental-activists-protest-energy-companies Green groups targeted polluters as corporate agents hid in their ranks] ''The Guardian'', 14/02/11, accessed 14/02/11</ref>
-This example of the well-oiled '[[Revolving Door]]' between the police and large corporations, formal or informal, may raise doubts about the the possibility of an entirely unbiased police force. Questions have been raised regarding the ethics of "former police officers cashing in on their surveillance skills for a host of companies that target protesters".<ref name="Evans2">Paul Lewis and Rob Evans [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/feb/14/environmental-activists-protest-energy-companies Green groups targeted polluters as corporate agents hid in their ranks] ''The Guardian'', 14/02/11, accessed 14/02/11</ref>
+This example of the well-oiled '[[Private security industry and the police: revolving door|revolving door]]' between the police and large corporations, formal or informal, may raise doubts about the the possibility of an entirely unbiased police force. Questions have been raised regarding the ethics of "former police officers cashing in on their surveillance skills for a host of companies that target protesters".<ref name="Evans2">Paul Lewis and Rob Evans [http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/feb/14/environmental-activists-protest-energy-companies Green groups targeted polluters as corporate agents hid in their ranks] ''The Guardian'', 14/02/11, accessed 14/02/11</ref>
 ==Direct links with the Scottish Executive & the Scottish Parliament==