Energy hypocrisy
Britain and the US have agreed that the US will aim to export at least nine to 10 billion cubic metres of liquified natural gas to UK terminals in 2023. (your report, 7 December). It is said that this will reduce winter blackouts. Note “reduce” – not stop.
Also note that the majority of this US gas will come from US fracking. That rather makes a mockery of those politicians who stopped fracking in the UK after being misled by Friends of the Earth, which said that fracking would cause earthquakes, cancer, increase radioactivity, poison underground water and that the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse would destroy those who dared to frack.
Strange that the Horsemen never visited America.
Clark Cross, Linlithgow, West Lothian
Balance risks
Dr Richard Dixon talks about a proposed nuclear reactor at Grangemouth as though these things exploded on a regular basis (Sustainable Scotland, 8 December). In fact, more people are killed by cars and aeroplanes than have ever been hurt by nuclear power.
When two aircraft collided on the runway at Tenerife in 1977, killing 583 people, we did not stop flying because it was too dangerous.
Risk is an element of life, so – as a self-described consultant – Dr Dixon should be presenting balanced views instead of his endless one-sided praise of all things green.
Malcolm Parkin, Kinnesswood, Perth & Kinross
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