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Jim Ratcliffe, the chairman of Ineos, has announced a plan to invest £640 million in shale 
gas exploration (your report, 21 November).

Ineos said it will give local communities 6 per cent of the revenues from the shale gas it produces, with 4 per cent going to homes and landowners above the well and 2 per cent to the wider local community.

Already those against fracking are making allegations of bribery and corruption.

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Why did they not make these allegations when wind farm 
developers promised huge sums of money to the local 
community to get planning permission?

A planning application has been submitted for the Glen Ullinish Wind Farm in Skye.

£250,000, every year, has been offered for the communities affected by this development and the Isle of Skye and Highland Council has been promised that it will receive £6.25 million every year of the wind farm’s 
existence.

We are talking about 25 years, which is £162.5m, so there must be a lot of profit (subsidies) in the turbine business.

I am sure, however, that the authority will not be
influenced.

Clark Cross

Springfield Road