Fracking fears

I SELDOM agree with Nicola Sturgeon, but there is always a first time – and her stance on fracking is it! The process is the breaking of the shell of the Earth. Just as with an eggshell, you cannot get the yolk back in a broken shell.

A firm which wants to get fracking is offering us a share of its vast profits but I would prefer a team of independent scientists giving us their opinion. R.m. Wilson, motherwell, lanarkshire. WHEN will Nicola Sturgeon wake up to the fact that the more she goes on about a second referendum, the deeper the black hole she is digging for the SNP?

Jim Ratcliff (Mail), boss of the Grangemouth refinery, says there is no way that Scotland can afford all that the SNP wants after the huge loss of revenue from North Sea oil and the only way forward is to lift the ban on fracking.

The resulting millions would be available for education, the NHS, policing – all currently underfunded by the SNP government.

J.B. borland, Peebles. THE SNP fracking moratorium appears to largely be based on superstition and myth.

It is shameful that a country such as Scotland, once famed for scientific and engineering innovation and progress, should be reduced to being ‘afraid of the dark’ in this fashion. Let’s listen to scientists and engineers again and not Nationalist mumbo-jumbo. a. mclean, Dumfries.