Sir, – The cherry picking of wind statistics from “independent”
conservation group WWF continues unashamedly as it uses its valuable
donated resources to help promote the wind industry.
Luckily the consumer is beginning to realise what a load nonsense it all is.
Firstly, WWF says wind supplied six days’ power out of 181 which leaves
even the mathematically challenged to ask what happened on the other 175 days?
WWF omits to tell us, during the same period, how many thousands of
megawatts we had to import from UK nuclear and fossil fuels sources to keep
the lights on or how many millions of pounds of constraints we have paid to
the operators to switch turbines off when demand was low to protect the grid.
Most crucially, WWF refuses to accept that the over deployment of
weather-dependent energy is catastrophic for our energy security.
It prefers to talk about climate change and low carbon when much of the
pollution caused by wind development, both here and abroad, is not even
factored into emissions savings calculations making claims of clean energy
disingenuous to say the least.
WWF should stick to what it was set up for. Energy is clearly not its field
of expertise and its encouragement of the SNP government to allow the
destruction of thousands more acres in Scotland for volatile, unreliable
wind is not appreciated by us or the wildlife it is supposed to protect.
Lyndsey Ward.
Darach Brae,
Breakachy,
Beauly.
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