Report is pulling wool over our eyes

HOW totally misleading of Gareth Redmond-King, World Wildlife Fund (WWF) to produce a report titled ‘2017 hailed as greenest as more records set’.

Really! Apart from electrical energy, surely he is aware that the oceans are breaking records with plastic pollution and our towns and cities are breaking air pollution records from the ever-increasing number of vehicles on our roads with their dirty engines.

He is attempting to pull the wool over our eyes regarding clean electrical energy – as an example I quote the madness of the proposed £400m Cleve Hill Solar Farm, at Graveney, near Whitstable in Kent. It will be UK’s largest solar farm. This project will cover 890 acres and is said to be capable of powering 110,000 homes – but what they don’t say, is that number of homes will only have electricity when there is sufficient solar radiation.

The whole project can be deemed doubly stupid when the electricity generated will be sent to the same substation that receives power from the London Array.

The London Array is currently the world’s largest offshore wind farm, having 175 wind generators and said to generate up to 630MW – again what they don’t volunteer is this generation is only true when the wind is at its optimum for maximum power generation.

So what happens on that freezing cold day in the winter, when it is dark and there is no wind – if householders are dependent on these two very large arrays then there will be no lighting, nor heating – zilch – for secure power generation it is total madness!

We are heavily dependent on conventional power stations to keep the lights on – wind and solar come nowhere near to replacing them for a guaranteed power supply – indeed government are quietly encouraging the building of standby diesel generator plants for when wind and solar fail – yes, that is correct Mr Redmond-King, dirty diesel engine plants, write about that in your report! Dave Haskell Cardigan, Ceredigion