Renewed effort

They will take place on 26 and 29 June in Scotland and are organised by the propaganda machines RenewableUK and Scottish Renewables, which get their funding from those who benefit from subsidies.

Another eight are planned for the rest of the UK.

I bet Donald Trump and the anti-wind turbine brigade will not get an invite.

I suggest that our elected councillors and planning officials have more intelligence than to go to these brainwashing sessions and instead will look after the local community interests despite the free lunch and refreshments.

I suggest that running these seminars discloses how desperate the renewables industry is getting as politicians, the public and anti-wind groups are exposing the flaws in the Scottish and UK’s energy policy and the horrendous cost to the energy user.

Clark Cross

Springfield Road

Linlithgow

In response to Clark Cross (Letters, 12 May), may I add that Mr Salmond has stated that his renewable energy target could in fact “create” (ie cost) up to 130,000 extra jobs.

This would amount to an increased burden of about £1,000 per annum for every one of us on the basis of an independent Scotland or £100 in a status quo UK .

This of course is the same Mr Salmond who has claimed that this level of renewable electrical energy generation would decrease Scotland’s carbon emissions by 42 per cent when electrical power production (only about 18 per cent of Scotland’s total energy requirement) didn’t produce this much in the first place – just one instance of the Scottish Government’s problems with sums. We may yet be saved!

(Dr) A McCormick

Kirkland Road

Terregles, Dumfries