YP Letters: All energy comes at a cost to local environment

Are Kirby Misperton residents just interested in their local environment and not the national interest?

AS a man of West Yorkshire, may I support the ideas of your columnist Sir Bernard Ingham on fracking? Unfortunately the second half of his recent article descends into a blanket diatribe against Greens.

Every form of energy generation has associated risks and most could be opposed on environmental grounds.

The wealth of the UK was founded heavily by manufacturing industry and industrialised parts of our country still give evidence of this. Twee North Yorkshire suffered nothing of this but gained greatly in wealth.

Topographically, the Pennine Moors and valleys put the featureless Vale of Pickering well in the shade. However, I’m sure the Green lobby will have no objections to the mushrooming wind turbines on our Pennine horizons – but woe betide anyone who dares to put some anywhere near Kirby Misperton.

The anti-fracking campaigners treat assertions as facts such as “there will be thousands of lorry journeys”; why not read the proposal to see the truth? Here’s another assertion – the anti-fracking campaigners are interested only in the environment of their own community; they care nothing for the national economy or global politics.