Great example of how muddled up some anti-frackers can be

If she thinks several hundred acres of solar farms that are in the pipeline towards planning in Ryedale would be less industrialising than fracking, she is mistaken.

Taking a few of her points, on truck movements – the Sunnica solar farm estimates on average 340 truck movements per day for two years. Solar panels and batteries have most components that are non-recyclable. Dumped in landfill perhaps?

Battery farms alongside solar are not for excess solar power. There is no such thing. The grid accommodates all solar output.

The batteries are there to buy power from the grid at night when cheap and then discharge during the day when they can sell at a higher price.

Of course, that power overnight will have been in part provided by gas, a fine example of greenwashing.

Lithium batteries are a massive fire hazard, lithium combusts with water and therefore is notoriously impossible to extinguish.

Chemicals are required to try and control the fire; these of course will leach into the land.

Everything negative that the anti-frackers threw at the shale gas industry can be thrown at renewables and more. There are no ‘Clean & Green’ energy resources, they all have their very dirty secrets. But the icing on the cake as an example of Ms Nightingale’s ineptitude was this, and I quote: “If Lord Goldsmith and the 29 MPs are keen on the resumption of fracking” – Ms Nightingale mixes up Lord Goldsmith with Lord Frost. Lord Goldsmith is against fracking. Oh dear, back to the drawing board or should I say her hydrocarbon produced phone and computer.

Lorraine Allanson, Allerston