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Letters / I can’t make it any simpler

John Tulloch, far from “…making sweeping assertions”, as you have done with your claims about oil and gas reserves, I would have thought that my use of the phrase ” the long term future” would have given you a clue. However, the period is irrelevant to my point which you have, ostensibly, failed to grasp.

Fact 1
SCT have entered into a partnership to provide a wind farm which could :-

(a) ensure that Shetland has electric power into the indefinite future by being connected to the National Electricity Grid;

(b) hold out the prospect of considerable financial returns on the investment to the SCT enabling continued provision for an ever increasing demand for care homes etc;

(c) enable the possibility of developing alternative clean energy such as tidal and wave generation thereby diversifying Shetland’s declining indigenous industries.

Fact 2
Sustainable Shetland is against the provision of the wind farm, and by not being able to offer any alternative, except the status quo, they thereby deny (a), (b) and (c).

I’m sorry, John, but I cannot make it any simpler than that.

Your obsession with denying that fossil fuel burning is affecting climate change should not disable your interpretive powers of the English language.

This is my last word on the subject.  Please do not regurgitate any more techno-tripe at me.

Regards,
Geordie Pottinger
Hamnavoe
Burra

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