I SEE that once again Giles Chichester MEP (Conservative) has written to the Times (Letter, May 17) promoting the nuclear power industry, whilst simultaneously doing down the wind power industry on the basis of the cost of subsidising it.

As I recently pointed out in the Times earlier this year all forms of power generation are subsidised by the tax payer.  Not only that but the most heavily subsidised form of power generation is the very nuclear power industry Mr Chichester seeks to promote at seemingly any opportunity.

Nuclear fission power companies have their liability to pay for any accidents waived by Government and as if that is not enough of a subsidy they do not have to pay to clean up their own mess, merely to putting it into temporary storage, leaving both the problem and the cost of cleaning it up to our children and their children yet to be born.

Instead of issuing half truths and obfuscation perhaps Mr Chichester would like to demonstrate his suitability to represent us, the voters, by engaging in a debate through these pages involving all the facts?

Dave Goodwin

Sticklepath