✕ Headline / Body Mismatch [9/10]: The headline clearly and accurately summarises the core event — local opposition to a proposed gas-fired power plant intended to power data centres — without exaggeration or emotional language.

"Moss Vale locals oppose plans for gas-fired power plant to run data centres"

✕ Loaded Verbs [9/10]: The article avoids editorialising and uses neutral verbs like 'said', 'told', and 'described' when reporting statements, maintaining objectivity.

"Local woman Nathalie Swainston said she was concerned about the impact on the broader environment."

✕ Sympathy Appeal [10/10]: While residents use emotionally charged language like 'devastated', the reporter attributes it properly rather than using it in the narrative voice.

"I'm devastated that this is even possible," she said."

✕ Passive-Voice Agency Obfuscation [10/10]: The article does not use scare quotes, dog whistles, or euphemisms, and avoids passive voice that obscures agency.

✓ Comprehensive Sourcing [9/10]: The article includes multiple named local residents, a councillor, a clean-energy advocate, a council official, a farmer, and a company representative (via prior statement), providing diverse stakeholder voices.

"Wingecarribee Shire councillor Heather Champion organised a protest last week that attracted about 200 people on a cold and wet Friday morning."

✓ Proper Attribution [8/10]: The company’s position is represented through prior statements to the ABC, including environmental claims and justification for staged applications, even though they declined new comment.

"It previously told the ABC that emissions would be treated to reduce the plant's pollutants to well below the NSW Environment Protection Authority's limits for the area."

✓ Viewpoint Diversity [9/10]: The article includes viewpoint diversity: residents, environmental advocates, local government, and the proponent are all represented with direct quotes or attributed statements.

"Kirstine McKay, from clean-energy group Win Zero, said the development would play a role in determining how other data centres across the state would be powered."

✕ Framing by Emphasis [8/10]: The article frames the issue as a community resisting industrial development with environmental and health implications, rather than reducing it to a simple pro-con conflict.

"People are worried about the health impacts of all the particulate that's going into the air, they're worried about the way that it will lock in heavy industry in the Highlands, and they're worried about the emissions as well."

✕ Narrative Framing [9/10]: It avoids episodic framing by connecting the project to broader questions about how data centres should be powered across NSW, elevating it beyond a single local dispute.

"If they approve this, everyone will be affected because we're setting a precedent about how things are going to be fuelled."