Why the SNP must get cracking with fracking
THE SNP really don’t like tough decisions, do they?
Always trying to be all things to all men, they vacillate, put off, and rely on external bodies for reports to put distance between themselves and tricky choices.
Fracking is a case in point. The industry in America is mature now and gives the US a reliable, cheap domestic source of fuel to keep power stations running.
There have been environmental errors but North Sea oil, once the key foundation for the SNP’s independence hopes, has a spotty record, too.
As the first imported shale gas (Mail) arrives at Grangemouth, the SNP are going to find that you can’t always be the friend of your party members.
Tough and even unpopular decisions have to be taken in the country’s best interests. How long before Nicola Sturgeon realises that to keep the lights on, we are going to have to frack the gas that sits in abundance under Scotland?
It’s a decision that needs a statesmanlike First Minister, not a partisan SNP leader. Has Nicola got the mettle?
LINDA ALLAN, Falkirk, Stirlingshire. SO there was no quayside delegation of SNP bigwigs – usually so keen on a hi-viz and hard-hat photo opportunity – to greet the first shale gas imports (Mail) to Grangemouth?
You can bet if it was a trendy and nearuseless wind turbine or tidal-powered gizmo that was arriving, they would have been all over it.
This country has frittered away millions on renewables and wrecked the countryside with wind farms (subsidy farms, more like). But fracking – a proven technology – is ruled out because of dogma and green mumbo-jumbo.
We simply cannot afford the SNP’s fixation on renewables. Let’s get fracking instead. JIM LOGAN, Glasgow. THE head of Ineos (Mail) says that his company generates perhaps 5 per cent of Scotland’s GDP.
Why are the jobs and wealth they create dependent on gas imported from America when we in Scotland are sitting on tons of the stuff?
Because the SNP would rather we were jobless and poor but ‘free’.
It’s high time they abandoned the independence hot air and worried about keeping the power stations running and people in jobs.