ARTHUR May (Letters, May15) praises Dr Phillip Bratby who has elsewhere been described as “locked in a nuclear energy time warp”. In the 1960s, we were told nuclear power would be “too cheap to meter”. Defra warns us that nine nuclear sites are now in danger from rising sea levels and storms (this includes Hinckley). We seem to be at the mercy of expensive Russian gas, Saudi oil or French nuclear power unless of course we are happy to allow in fracking companies with their 750 interesting (commercial confidentially protected) chemicals. Oh and a serious fault now found in French reactors. Might bother our potential Chinese backers.

On Wednesday, June 17 all of us are invited to have useful conversations with our new parliamentary representatives in Westminster at a mass lobby. I will be asking why the Energy Efficiency Deployment Office has vanished.

Also, at a time when another glacier will be sliding from Antarctica, for our representatives to warp-time a decarbonisation programme and withdraw huge subsidies from dirty energy supplies. Many of us envy the German people with their community ownership of local energy and their passivhauses (£20 a year to heat - lights and bodies).

Our young people need to know we are trying to secure them a safe future.

SUSAN CHAPMAN

Parkwood Road, Southbourne