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Published Date: 31 March 2008
Scottish & Southern Energy is advocating more hydro-electricity projects because wind farms need instant back-up when the wind abates (Scrutineer, 27 March). This is most interesting to those of us endowed with memory, for we've come around a full circle: first wind farms were said to be necessary because hydro would have required the destruction of treasured ecosystems. So we're building wind farms instead, which ruin valuable peatlands, wildlife habitats, and tourists'
It is hard to believe no-one had thought of that before. But what is precious is the conclusion of the article: "... something has to give". Well, something already has: could it be the credibility of Europe's energy policy ?



MARK DUCHAMP

Partida La Sella

Pedreguer, Spain





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  • Last Updated: 30 March 2008 8:13 PM
  • Source: The Scotsman
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

nabodican,

Rural Scotland 31/03/2008 01:34:20
They do not have an energy policy other than bowing to the wishes of the wind industry.
2

StuartAD,

West Lothian 31/03/2008 07:43:45
The wind industry, that will be Holyrood then?
3

Isonomia,

Lenzie 31/03/2008 08:31:27
Please don't call the wind developers and "Industry". An industry means "industrious", these parasites are not industrious except in their scams to get Scottish consumers to pay for their 4x4s. They are industrious in destroying Scottish jobs and sending them to the countries that build these windmills and they are industrious in pulling the wool over everyone's eyes about the fact that global warming never was anything to do with manmade CO2 and that

AND GLOBAL WARMING HAS STOPPED!
4

nabodican,

Rural Scotland 31/03/2008 12:21:32
Looks like we are all agreed - mind you Fred Bloggs has not posted yet !!!!
5

Neil,

Glasgow 31/03/2008 14:27:12
Thanks for the phrase
"This is most interesting to those of us endowed with memory"

Politics & journalism seem to depend on most of the electorate lacking this feature. Warming (& previously cooling) alarmists being merely the most egregious example.

 

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