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Risky business

WE CANNOT go on shutting down and cancelling our oil and gas production as well as continuing a bar on nuclear power.

It is irresponsible in the extreme to do this in the present state of uncertainty. To do it while being fully aware of the shortcomings of renewables is close to criminal.

Scotland in the grip of winter and trying to keep up with dwindling and shut-off supplies is unthinkable.

But that is exactly the path on which the Greens/SNP have set us – and all to make futile, holier than thou gestures. Thank the Lord we

remain connected to the UK. We were once, very recently, virtually free from the vagaries of world energy markets and near self-sufficient.

But those with no technical expertise and even less sense – such as the Greens and the loonier elements of the SnP – have indulged in extreme gesture politics and banned new production and nuclear development to the point that, in the not-too-distant future, lives will be at risk. ALEXANDER MCKAY,

Edinburgh.

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