Summary
THE tone of the evening was set when the vast majority of the audience at Jedburgh Town Hall cheered as renewables sceptic Bob Graham referred to "the wind farm scam". Panellists - proponents of renewable energy and sceptics - locked horns over important issues such as: 'Is Scotland making a mess of renewable energy?' The debate was, appropriately, energetic.
It was chaired by Lesley Riddoch from BBC Scotland, with panellists including: Duncan McLaren, chief executive of Friends of the Earth Scotland; Dr Martin Ford, the Lib Dem councillor from Aberdeenshire who famously took on Donald Trump; Dr Sian McGrath, head of commercial development at Aquamarine Power; Green MSP Patrick Harvie; Professor Jane Bower, a wind energy sceptic; and Bob Graham, a campaigner against wind farms. The debate ended with a vote on whether we are making a mess of renewable energy. The public overwhelmingly voted that we are.See the full content of this document
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A Necessary Wind of Change or a Storm On the Horizon?
DOES THE FUTURE STABILITY OF SCOTLAND'S ELECTRICITY SUPPLY DEPEND ON NUCLEAR GENERATION IN ENGLAND? Asked by David Lochhead, Lammermuir Protection Group
Duncan McLaren (DM): No. Nuclear power provides constant non intermittent base load. It can't be turned on and off so if we have wind on the system what backs it up is gas- or coal-fired power stations. There's no reliance on nuclear power if we go down a renewable road.It is one of the wonderful red herrings of wind development that we are told it needs an equal amount of fossil fuels. It needs a capacity on the system but then so do fossil fuels.Professor Jane Bower (JB): EON UK ... in their response to the House of Lords inquiry into...See the full content of this document
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