SIR - I am happy to support your faith expressed in Comment (Gazette, January 21) that there are still people dedicated to putting our interests before politics.

Some have lived and worked safely in Oldbury and its power station for up to 40 years providing reliable energy without CO2 emissions to fuel the Greenhouse Effect.

In my experience as the parish councillor with responsibility for relations between the power station and local people (and I mean local not no-hope politicians from Stroud and Somerset) there is a confidence that the very experienced operators at the power station monitored and supported by experts from the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate and The Environment Agency would not risk our safety.

I cannot support your willingness to give headline publicity to those political opportunists who can only get noticed by spreading unfounded scare stories as they do not have realistic policies to obtain votes.

If you want scare stories - how bad a tsunami will the Severn Bore become when the sea rises due to the global warming caused by the CO2 emissions from the hydrocarbon fuelled power stations providing our electricity requirements when the Green Party's wind farms cannot operate because of gales or lack of wind? In that situation I, and I'm sure many 'locals', will by happy to take refuge in safety on top of our friendly nuclear power station.

I am not, and never have been, a member of any political party and will struggle to know which one to support. But the Green's have fallen off the moral high ground with regard to nuclear energy.

Of course the Magnox Stations are old technology but there has never been a nuclear or radiation problem in their 40 odd years of generating electricity and they are now carefully and responsibly being prepared for shut down.

Not many industries have that sort of safety record. With all that experience there is new technology which, carefully managed, can go on safely producing the CO2 free energy we need to power our consumer society.

Malcolm Lynden Church Road Oldbury-on-Severn