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Letter to the Edinburgh Evening News |
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Written by Steuart Campbell
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Saturday, 27 May 2006 |
TREVOR SWISTCHEW (Letters, 24 May) asks what is wrong with importing energy.
As many experts and even the Prime Minister have explained, importing energy puts the UK at the mercy of the exporting country and jeopardises our energy security. We should not put our energy supply at risk.
With North Sea gas in decline, we will become dependent on European supplies, probably mainly from Russia, and LNG in tankers from Algeria. We will still need gas, but at least we can stop using it to generate electricity by switching to nuclear power, over which we have almost total control (even the uranium comes from Commonwealth countries and we have large stocks of recycled uranium).
Can I also point out that, because of the energy involved and the greenhouse gases produced, many condemn the importation of food from countries all around the globe.
We should be careful to ensure that our international trade neither endangers our security nor damages the global climate.
Steuart Campbell |
