WOW, a first. That irascible Philip Roe actually agreeing with someone.

However, there is a caveat. I agree with the green protesters (The Press, October 24) in their crusade to stop the use of wood-pellets to fuel the boilers at Drax.

Using those wood-pellets is, supposedly, to reduce the amount of CO2 being pumped into the atmosphere by the power station.

This saving is surely off-set quite considerably by the CO2 produced by the diesel engines, of the tree-felling machinery and similar engines which propel the ships transporting the pellets from the US to Britain. Plus the huge tonnage of pellets required to raise the steam to power the generators. Collectively this must produce massive amounts of CO2.

Then there is the denuding of the huge tree-plantations which have been sacrificed to produce the pellets.

Those trees would have absorbed quite a lot of C02 if they had been left to grow.

So, what is the caveat?

The green protesters not only want the wood-burning parts of Drax scrapped, they also want the coal-burning part of the power station shut down too.

Just what, exactly, do the Greens propose to put in place of Drax to produce the 4,000 MW, (seven per cent of the UK’s needs) of electricity it produces?

If the Greens want to reduce the amount of CO2 being produced by conventional, fossil-fuelled power stations there is only one possible answer.

Go nuclear, you know it makes sense.

Philip Roe, Roman Avenue South, Stamford Bridge