THE closure of Longannet is a disaster in terms of our energy security and the appalling loss of jobs ("Crisis talks as power giants pull the plug on Longannet", The Herald, March 24).
However it should also be a reason for celebration, for at least four reasons.
There will be less pollution as we reduce fossil fuel consumption even more. That will keep all those environmental groups happy.
It will demonstrate, as nothing else can, that wind power is the most utterly useless, unreliable and economically predatory form of power generation.
Our elected representatives may at last have to change their current habit of not listening to warnings and pay urgent attention as the lights go out and people start rioting.
The wind industry will cease to exist and we can at last enjoy our breakfast without having to listen to numerous politicians instructing us in how the world could be saved by unknown numbers of turbines (as demonstrated by the absence of any current official data) and how we personally should finance it.
Lyndsey Ward,
Darach Brae, Beauly.
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