Power station
Scotland’s Hunterston B nuclear power station was shut down forever on 7 January. It has provided clean electricity for 46 years.
Of course Lang Banks of WWF Scotland and formerly chief executive with wind turbine PR organisation Scottish Renewables has to get in on the act and imply that nuclear is dangerous and that renewable electricity will fill the gap.
He knows that wind turbine electricity is unreliable and that the owners are paid to produce electricity and paid not to produce it and that over £1 billion of constraint payments have been made, to the mostly foreign owners, since 2010 and added to all UK electricity bills.
Over the last 12 months in the UK, gas has supplied 41.8 per cent of our electricity, nuclear 16.4 per cent and wind a laughable 18.7 per cent yet Lang Banks wants the public to believe that unreliable wind will fill the Hunterston B gap.
Clark Cross, Linlithgow, West Lothan
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