Letters / No comparison
The Total gas plant has nothing whatsoever to do with wind farms, Craig (Don’t teach what they preach; SN 10/6/13).
To inform the ignorant, peat disturbed by the gas plant is less than one per cent of that of the Viking Energy wind farm.
The entire gas plant ground footprint, including road and pipework, is less than one square kilometre.
Viking Energy’s ground disturbance will be well over square 100 square kilometres, with the roads alone. New quarries alone will be one square kilometre.
The energy supplied by the gas plant will be perhaps one million times the multiple of VE. That is not a relevant, clever or intelligent comparison.
It is a bit ironic that without the gas plant, the new power station would need to burn polluting oil to generate power just to keep Shetland’s lights burning when the wind blows too hard or is calm for VE.
That would be when green Scotland is running on French nuclear, again!
It’s all a bit irrelevant now as VE is stalled, lets all just hope it stays stalled due to non viability, or we may just have to wait on the judicial review, or SSE pulling out of such a daft investment.
Ian Tinkler
Clousta
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