Guernsey Press

Guernsey is way behind in providing support for alternative energies

DEPUTY David De Lisle does not think we should be thinking about a direct line from France to Guernsey but should be using other means of generating our electricity. So why hasn’t the States of Guernsey helped with insulation of houses and the electricity board with solar panels, thus reducing our need for quite as much electricity?

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When we returned to the island, we were amazed to discover that there were no grants toward either of these things.

In the UK we had help with insulating our roof and reroofing it, our son has had his house pumped with insulation material with help from the local authority and has solar panels installed on his garage because he is able to sell back surplus electricity to the electricity authority.

The States had a chance to have an incinerator which could have contributed to providing power, and a biodigestor for taking care of waste food, instead we have an extremely expensive waste site and collection system and are dumping our waste on someone else. Unacceptable.

I do despair of our politicians, who seem to throw money at various vanity projects.

We should have had a proper solution to our sewage problem with a treatment works instead of extending the pipe and just pumping untreated sewage further out to sea. Our record of disposing of our waste is an absolute disgrace.

MRS J. BICHARD,

Forest.