Spectator letters: Wind and bias, and the Scots at war

Caution over wind

Sir: While the broadcast media have assailed their audiences with simplistic yet blanket coverage of the floods crisis, it behoves Christopher Booker to provide a long overdue critical perspective of the Environmental Agency (‘Sunk!’, 15 February). The two main tenets of his article have been ignored by most, if not all, other journalists.

With something approaching delicious irony we are then treated in the same issue to a self-serving missive from the Renewables UK boxwallah Jennifer Weber (Letters, 15 February). Replete (as one would expect from an organisation that previously went under the name British Wind Energy Association) with dismissive assertions and bogus statistics, Weber’s letter exemplifies the absolute intolerance that green ideologues show to any legitimate criticism that runs counter to their orthodoxy.

To say that ‘two thirds of the public support the deployment of wind energy’ is risible, when study after study has demonstrated the financial and practical unsuitability of such alternative sources of energy.