We need home-grown green electricity supply
I WISH to address all citizens of the Bailiwick by posing a simple question.
Do we want a reliable supply of green electricity?
Of course we do, it is the most pressing necessity right now and for the future. Then we must make a serious capital investment as soon as possible.
We need a project to secure a joint Channel Islands grid-based renewable supply from wind turbines, solar panels and tidal power, all under our control.
The question is, how to achieve it? Regrettably our deputies are doing nothing, so it seems we are left with no alternative but to somehow shame them into action by sheer force of people pressure. It is to everyone’s advantage and it can be done.
It is down to us, the electorate, each and every one of us to pester our deputies day and night until they instigate the project. The word ‘clamour’ comes to mind.
The incentive of a home grown, hopefully cheaper supply is blindingly obvious and of course what a gratifying pleasure it would be to thank ‘our French friends’ for past services.
The Daily Telegraph [15 February] reports that Normandy’s first Fecamp wind farm of 71 turbines, capable of generating sufficient power for 770,000 people, is under construction.
FRANK WOOD
Mount Durand