THE First Minister advocates “restoring peatlands” as a component of
tackling climate change (“Scots told to speak up on tackling ‘climate
emergency’”, The Herald, June 20). The most significant damage to peatlands
has been from wind farms (also advocated by the First Minister) which
require bases and access roads. The First Minister has declined to
acknowledge this, either through ignorance (incompetence) or deviousness
(deception by economy with truth). Hypocrisy is not a robust policy; people
notice.
The SNP is currently chanting in unison that Boris Johnson is not fit to be
Prime Minister. Let the Scottish people, in majority if not in unison,
commence chanting that Nicola Sturgeon is not fit to be First Minister;
list of reasons on request.
William Durward, Bearsden.
HOLYROOD has still failed to pledge a price-match between renewable energy
and gas when a ban on fossil fuels is introduced by 2026. That failure will
result in an annual £18 billion increase in energy bills and a £175 billion
infrastructure debt to install around 85,000 MW of renewables to replace150
TWhours of energy supplied by gas.
As there is minimal demand for central heating over the summer the plant
will sit idle as the two cross border interconnectors have only around
5,000 MW capacity. That results in a bill of about £4 billion in constraint
payments. In addition, the four-fold increase in grid capacity to meet the
demands of electric vehicles will add another £220 billion to Scottish debt.
If English consumers are no longer to be liable for 92 per cent of costs
should the Climate Change Bill be renamed The Darien Scheme Mark 2?
Ian Moir, Castle Douglas.
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