Letter: Carbon omission

THE recent recommendation from Richard Dixon to embrace low carbon fuels (Letters, 10 February) is an exercise in pure brilliance and links seamlessly with other aspects of WWF's strategy for Scotland.

It is particularly remarkable in its long-term lethal effect on Scotland's largest industry: tourism, based on transport using carbon-rich fuel.

The WWF pincer movement of high fuel costs and a landscape covered in tens of thousands of wind turbines and giant pylons would kill off the allure of the Scottish landscape and the affordability of air, car and bus travel to see it.

Ron Greer

Blair Atholl, Perthshire

YET again Dr Richard Dixon, director of the charity WWF, writes to the press on carbon targets. (Letters, 10 February)

When was it that this wildlife charity changed from its main purpose of protecting flora and fauna to becoming a platform for the renewables industry?

Clark Cross

Springfield Road

Linlithgow

WWF's call for us to institute a trade war with Canada (Letters, 10 February) describes a report disagreeing with the Canadians about what Canadian industry does as "an independent study commissioned by the EU".

Something funded by somebody else, let alone by politicians, is not independent. Perhaps WWF can be forgiven for not knowing this since some of its income comes via government.

Neil Craig

Woodlands Road, Glasgow