Cheap power
There will be a lot of good cheer in the north-east at the “27 new North Sea oil and gas exploration licences that have been approved” by the UK Government (Scotsman, 31 October). This will guarantee many years of work for thousands of people in Aberdeenshire and it will also enable us to provide a measure of self-sufficiency in terms of both sources of energy and income. It is (of course) only to be expected that the Greens will howl and the very confused SNP to run around like headless chickens because they genuinely don’t know whether to celebrate this successful Government initiative or condemn it.
As the owner of a heat pump company has confirmed that they are “ugly and cumbersome” and that they can’t cope with the cold of a Scottish winter, nationalists and Greens are stuck with having to cuddle each other to stay warm this winter.
In the meantime, we can use our skills in drilling gained in the oil industry to use nature’s own, completely clean geothermal energy, which is what they do in Iceland. Agreed, it is at a much greater depth, but it is already being exploited and it would guarantee generations of clean, free power that doesn’t simply help the Chinese economy and it should have minimal impact on our stunning landscapes.
What are we waiting for?
Andrew HN Gray, Edinburgh
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