Edinburgh-based improvisation art collective, I.M.P ( in_my_presence) will hold a durational performance event (eh? – Ed.) at Cramond Beach on Saturday. Continue reading WATER walking and MILLS: improvisation art at Cramond
Tag: water
Letters: Essential utilities must be publicly owned
Dear Editor
Every one of us needs the supply of electricity and a lot of people also need gas for heating and cooking. We all need a supply of fresh water: yet all of these industries are owned by private companies, able to fix prices to maintain multi-million pounds of profit for investors.
This supply of electricity, gas and water is essential and is provided by workers in those industries.
Why, then, should such essential services be in the hands of private companies? These basic essential services should be publicly owned.
The control of these basic essential services cannot be left to private individuals and groups of investors. It is backward thinking; it is greedy and immoral however measured.
A. Delahoy
Silverknowes Gardens
Letters: Lessons from the fracking USA
Dear Editor
Fracking – Danger Ahead
Fracking in America has made vast profits for investment companies: it has also caused contamination of the water table, with toxic chemicals making the water impossible to drink or use.
In some areas water is having to be transported and stored in containers by the householders. Imagine that happening in areas already earmarked for widespread fracking in our central belt of West, Mid and East Lothian.
The immediate danger arises – as it did with wind turbines – of private landowners making deals with fracking companies: this must be prohibited now.
The Scottish government must, without any ‘ifs’ or ‘buts’, state clearly that fracking will not be allowed in any shape or form. The potential disaster for the people of polluting our water supply in the pusuit of private profit must be stopped.
A. Delahoy, Silverknowes Gardens