Letters: Power play – Herald (letters)

I AGREE with Graham Brooks (Letters, December 12) on the energy crisis. It
is ironic that last week Doosan Babcock declared 470 redundancies. This
company was originally Babcock & Wilcox: its Renfrew works at one time was
the world’s largest boiler-making plant.

Most of our major power stations built in the fifties and sixties were
powered by Babcock boilers. Our nuclear industry from Calder Hall to
Hinkley Point was manufactured at Renfrew.

Fossil fuels are no longer acceptable and this has led to us closing down
our large power stations. Our government is anti-fracking and anti-nuclear.
Our education system is not doing well and our secondary roads are not even
third-world status.

Ferguson Shipyard is regenerating thanks to Jim McColl and help from the
government. Can this type of initiative not be harnessed for the power
industry?

Charles R McQueen, 33 St Andrews Road, Renfrew.