Wind farms belong off-shore, as do wave machines, and as for solar power… where’s the sun? Coal is far too valuable a resource to burn.

Come on Ming – get real. Unless we build nuclear power stations now, we can never meet the UK’s modest carbon emission targets. You know it makes sense!

Sincerely

Nick Hance
Buckland, Oxfordshire

The villains of the piece are the fossil fuel power stations. THEY should be the target of our party’s condemnation not the n.p. stations.

It should be clear by now that n.p. has underpinned our electricity production for decades and stands set fair to bear the load that a decline in fossil fuel burning will put upon our system as it becomes slowly more sustainable and renewable.

‘Green’ electricity provides yet a tiny proportion of our needs and wind wave and solar are largely inefficient and very expensive. (Yes, n.p. is expensive but it WORKS and on a large scale and is RELIABLE.) It will be decades before the renewables get close to matching fossil in scope. In the meantime we do not need to endure a hair-shirt environment on cold windless nights in winter if we can keep out nuclear compopment.

It was noticeable that the vote at Conference last year on n.p.was greeted with the whoops and yells akin to the reception of a southern Baptist minister at a fundamentalist meeting in the Deep South of the US – not an intelligent LIBERAL party in a Western democracy. It was a truly sickening moment. Our decisions should be based on reason, not hatred.