Letters

IAN Mcnair is right when he writes that it’s time to “undeclare the climate emergency” (letters, November 3) because the fact is that there isn’t one. The climate is slowly changing as it has done for eons. We in Scotland will benefit if the summers become sunnier and the winters milder.

Increasingly, people are beginning to question the march of wind farms, solar farms, power lines, sub stations and battery storage yards across the whole country, and the environmental degradation they bring.

Decarbonisation of the National Grid is making it less reliable and less efficient and disaster may await if Ed Miliband’s plan to shut all gas-fired power stations by 2030 goes ahead. Net zero has caused the price of electricity to soar damaging industry, business and commerce, as well as burdening consumers.

However, in support of Mr Mcnair’s undeclaration we have Reform and the Conservatives. The former intend to ditch net zero if elected, while the latter’s policies now include repealing the Climate Change Act, disbanding the all-powerful Climate Change Committee organisation, scrapping the £2bn per year carbon tax on gas and the £7.5bn per year on the Renewables Obligation Scheme, and forging ahead with small nuclear reactors.

When will the SNP wake up and realise their unstinting support for net zero, their opposition to nuclear power, and their opposition to further development of North Sea oil and gas, and indeed onshore fracking, is undermining the case for economic independence?

William Loneskie, Lauder, Berwickshire.