I THINK that the concern being expressed about fossil fuels being any part of the plans for Westfield has to be right.

We had 50 plus years of coal being dug at the opencast site and the Lurgi Plant processing the low grade stuff to produce gas for the national network.

Now these days have gone and surely we are looking to the next stage of Westfield in the 21st century.

This is, indeed, an important stage for the former opencast mine.

It was literally abandoned by the coal industry after it had been worked out and while, as your article last week, intimated, nature had done a lot of rehabilitation work, the water in the huge hole has some pretty awful chemicals amongst it.

So the time has surely come when the uses for Westfield should be of the green type and no gas generators.

I think that Mark Ruskell makes some very good points.

Westfield's time of being part of the fossil fuel production line has gone and I think everyone would be delighted to see the wind farm's contribution to the green energy portfolio being built on in the years to come.

Certainly solar power panels being removed for gas generators is not a good thing at all and hopefully Mr Ruskell's points will be taken on board.

WESTIE,

Lochgelly.