YOUR VIEWS: Wind energy is not the answer
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I heard Stephen Kinnock, Labour MP, recently state on national television that the “climate was burning”. Looking out of the window at deep snow I wondered what these politicians were on to make such inane and deliberately scare-mongering comments.
Some actually believe what these people tell them and take these half-baked sound bites at face value.
We already know that children are suffering from anxiety due to the green lobby force feeding them their extreme view with vested interests. A vulnerable and captive audience denied the right to be taught balance at all times or to speak against the “green” narrative and ridiculed and discouraged if they dare. There is no escape anywhere be it at school or on just about every news programme as most items get a mention of our impending doom slotted in somewhere.
What many are beginning to understand is how sinister the green gravy train really is. Nobody that I know denies the climate is changing and that humans really need to clean up their act. Not just here but right across the world as the appalling pollution they have caused in the oceans and across the land and waterways is a disgusting testament to our lack of consideration for the environment we inhabit.
However, what we have to consider is with high emission war conflicts, volcanoes and an increase in coal burning by those wishing to sell us the cheap goods we can no longer produce because of our climate rules, what exactly is the point in destroying our rural environment for something that cannot change what the climate does ie unreliable wind turbines and their horrific infrastructure. Most made from coal-produced Chinese steel, transported in diesel ships and far from emissions-free or clean.
We know the mass wind deployment is not for the benefit of Scotland but for the profits of the investment companies that are shareholders in the energy companies, including the grid operators, plaguing our country.
We also know weather-dependent wind energy can never give us energy security and that battery storage is not only dangerous and expensive it is produced to the detriment of those overseas targeted by the mining companies. Don’t our virtue signalling politicians care about them?
This is all about money and not for us as apart from tax, if any is paid, profits made from our suffering communities will not benefit you or I but we will pay for it on our energy bills and in terms of what we will have lost environmentally.
What is deeply concerning is that there does not seem to be one politician of any colour prepared to ask what exactly are we doing and just accept that all is necessary. No one has offered the data to prove need and no one can explain what net zero means to those paying for it, when the elusive ‘net zero’ target will be met or when the industrialisation will end.
There is silence except for the sound of grossly inflating bank balances for the ‘green’ elite and the distressed cries of those forced to pay and live with it.
Lyndsey Ward, Beauly, Spokeswoman for Communities B4 Power Companies
