The Scottish Government is consulting on proposals to make public sector bodies report climate change information.
The public sector have enough to do without even more red tape.
This consultation has arisen because the Scottish Government missed its 2012 emissions reduction target.
Climate change minister Dr Aileen McLeod said the Scottish Government takes its climate change obligations seriously and through world-leading ambitions they are doing all they can to deliver on this challenging agenda.
Scotland has a miniscule 0.15per cent of global emissions.
Electricity generation accounts for only 21per cent of these emissions so 0.21 x 0.15 = 0.0315.
For this miniscule saving we are erecting subsidy-munching wind turbines in every nook and cranny.
Dr McLeod must have fallen down a rabbit hole and is living in Alice in Wonderland.
Clark Cross, Linlithgow via email
Celebrity style game shows where celebrities play to win money for their chosen charity are becoming a farcical gimmick.
The amount won for charities is nominal, and is a fraction of the overall earnings of the celebrities participating.
So, why don't celeb's match the amount given by TV game shows, or better still donate money to them without needing to turn charities into a cheap form of TV entertainment.
Jill Ferguson, Glasgow via email
Someone should inform Jim Murphy there is an election in three months. He is going on about drink in football grounds, now he wants knighthoods for two old football players.
Jim give us some socialist policies like taking the National Grid back into public ownership, re-nationalise the energy companies and railways, and make sure our pensioners are looked after.
William Allan East Kilbride, via email
Re Brian Robertson's comments in Friday's Evening Times complaining about the government writing off unpaid poll tax. I would like to remind Brian that if it hadn't been for non-payment of that obscene tax we would still be lumbered with it. It was only because of the large number of people who refused to pay that it was eventually scrapped. It is only right that these debts be written off.
I don't believe in breaking the law, but sometimes it is a necessary evil.
Next up: That ridiculous TV license
Harry Power, Uddingston via email
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