Case for nuclear
He is right on both counts, but the second report from the UK Committee on Climate Change last month called for faster installation of wind.
The annual rate has recently been 0.7Gw per year. The committee urged an increase to more than 3Gw per year. There is huge UK government momentum behind on- and off-shore wind development. This will continue, unless views change or until it hits the buffers, like the English schools programme, on grounds of cost.
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Hide AdAs for nuclear, Labour delayed for more than a decade before reaching a decision on new civil nuclear stations, and announced its plans for ten new stations only in November last year.
An SNP government in Holyrood cannot continue forever. Why, then, was there no plan for a new nuclear station in Scotland? Lack of courage? There is evidence that a small majority of Scots is not anti-nuclear.
NORMAN LAWRIE
Newton Port
Haddington, East Lothian
The SNP government's "nuclear prejudice" (Opinion, 19 July) is a graphic example of politics overriding good economics.
To reject nuclear energy and promote renewable is bad economics with potentially disastrous effects on investment, jobs and economic wellbeing.
ELLIS THORPE
Old Chapel Walk
Inverurie, Aberdeenshire