I was left saddened and depressed by Angus Robertson’s vision of the future of power supplies (News, April 6).
Again he produces the SNP myth that Scotland will soon be producing 100% of her power supplies from renewable sources “shortly”. Ironically two pages earlier in the same issue of the News, letter writer Mr Les Reid shows that only 55% of our electricity comes from renewable sources, not 97%.
Mr Robertson’s vision of the future seems to be one where Scotland is covered in wind turbines producing electricity gladly bought up by the rest of Europe and England (“still dependent on nuclear”).
Well, it seems we too are still dependent on nuclear to the extent of 28% of our needs. Has he noticed that France is still building nuclear power stations?
The other part of Mr Roberston’s vision is of expediting more and more containers “from the Far East”, meaning presumably China principally.
Do we want to surrender our manufacturing industries to a nation that seems determined to become the most powerful in the world?
We should be developing our own manufacturing skills and industries, providing jobs in this country, not being dependent on factories using slave Uighurs. We are apparently unable to build our own wind turbines, ironically.
His vision of the overwhelming importance of Scotland’s location so that he seems to think we will control the trade routes west, north and east of Europe is just a fancy.
Are all the container ships travelling along the “North Sea Route” to Hamburg, Rotterdam and Antwerp going to call into Scottish ports to say hello?
Scotland is indeed going to have to change to keep up with the rapid changes taking place in the world. I suggest that if the SNP are ever in charge, they should put a gag on Angus Robertson.
Neil Mackenze, Grange Loan, Edinburgh. https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/opinion/letters/angus-robertsons-fanciful-energy-outlook-your-views-3192916
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