The Loch Ness Monster is once again in peril as the failed hydro electric plant at Glendoe is to be repaired. It's Europe's largest power generating system of its kind (water is pumped in tunnels buried deep underground to take water from a reservoir in the Monadliath mountains to massive turbines by Loch Ness and back again).

The queen officially opened the scheme last year but it suffered a catastrophic failure just a few weeks later when a massive rockfall blocked the subterranean tunnel. It's been closed ever since but now two more by-pass tunnels are to be dug and it may restart operations next year.

Professor Kettle, speaking from his Loch Ness project, said "we are very concerened. Both the massive drilling machine and the huge turbines make a humming sound and vibrations that may affect our elusive cryptid in the loch. We will be monitoring the situation very closely. Nessie is protected by an official Act of Parliament and must be protected".

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