Letters

FIRST IN QUEUE

We support MSP Monica Lennon’s plan to hold polluters to account through a Scottish Ecocide Bill that could capture large-scale acts of eco destruction, such as destructive industrial marine activities, river pollution, deforestation and schemes that release carbon into the atmosphere, such as disturbing our peatlands which act as a natural carbon sink.

We also agree with Ms Lennon that “people wouldn’t damage the environment if there wasn’t some profit motive sitting away at the back of it somewhere”.

All of the above accurately describe the atrocities which are taking place on a daily basis to accommodate both on and offshore wind farm development, yet any mention of this so called “green” industry is neatly avoided.

Is that deliberate or is it down to lack of joined-up thinking?

Aileen Jackson Scotland Against Spin,Uplawmoor, East Renfrewshire

Labour MSP Monica Lennon wants a 20-year penalty for causing “widespread, longterm or irreversible environmental damage” with her proposed Ecocide (Prevention) (Scotland) Bill (“Polluters could face 20 years in prison”, 29 May).

Both the Labour Party and the SNP have been pushing new developments all over our fair land. These “wind farms” and “new build” housing estates for people flooding in from somewhere surely cause irreversible environmental damage to our hills and low-lying areas and our seabeds. Does Ms Lennon intend to prosecute current and former Holyrood ministers and directors of the companies putting in these wind turbines and houses? If not, why not? John Fraser

Glasgow