Politicians are not giving us affordable energy, they are promoting fuel poverty

As politicians in Moray, Aberdeenshire and Holyrood, sit in their overheated offices, closing toilets, schools, libraries, community halls and laying off staff left, right and centre because of lack of funds, they are about to grant planning permission for even more offshore wind turbines, in our glorious Moray Firth, that will impoverish us all.

Have they got their priorities, right? Every country, without exception, that has been duped by the parasitic wind industry now has the highest energy bills in the world – South Australia comes top, Denmark is second, and Germany third. The financial obligations undertaken in the process will continue to burden German taxpayers for another two decades and end up costing consumers a total of around 550 billion euros.

What’s more, the supposedly evil carbon emissions in Germany are now greater than when they started the whole fiasco! The carbon footprint of a typical wind turbine is a massive 241.85 tons of CO2. Big Wind eliminates none of the need for conventional capacity, but rather consumes vast quantities of additional fuel and raw materials, while spewing emissions during the manufacture, transportation, construction and maintenance of the enormous turbines and their uniquely demanding infrastructure. A whole chapter on birdkill could also be written.

Here, the cost of green subsidies continues to rise, and will cost £66.1 billion in the next five years, approximately £2,500 for every household in the country, according to the latest OBR Government statistics. Affordable energy? Our ever-gullible politicians are actually promoting and supporting big-time fuel poverty, with our money, while destroying the environment.

GEORGE HERRAGHTY Lothlorien Lhanbryde,

Moray