IT is good to have a big energy conference in Glasgow covering a wide range
of subjects, from the National Grid to sustainable transport (“Renewable
energy conference will put an estimated £4.6m into Glasgow economy”, The
Herald, May 6).

The TV weather maps this spring have regularly demonstrated the climatic
differences between the south-east of England and Scotland in particular.

It is to be hoped that the new Westminster government will continue the
work just started to reduce the double whammy which consumers here face
from higher transmission charges and the inescapable need to use much more
energy than consumers in the south just to keep warm.

R J Ardern,
26A Southside Road,
Inverness.

I HAVE often thought that wind turbines are the best mechanism known to
businesspeople for turning a natural resource into dividends for the
shareholders of “subsidy farmers” as described by GM Lindsay (Letters, May
5) and already-rich landowners. They are certainly of limited efficiency as
a means of converting wind power into electricity.

I further suggest that as your readers gaze upon the despoliation of our
landscapes they recognise that these turbines are also extremely effective
at diverting scarce national resources away from the insulation of our
housing stock, as suggested by Donald Thomson (Letters, May 5), potentially
a far more effective means of reducing our CO2 emissions and providing
local employment.

John Milne,
9 Ardgowan Drive,
Uddingston.


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