VERY many questions concerning BCP council's response to the climate and ecological emergency were asked at the Full Council meeting on November 24.

And it is great that Cllr Mike Greene will be presenting the first BCP Council Climate Action Annual Report to Cabinet on December 16.

Although a zero- carbon date of 2050 is of course far too late.

In answering Hannah Hueston's question about the proposed wind farm Cllr Greene asserted that, "Local councils opposed the development on several grounds".

But he seems to have forgotten that the Isle of Wight Council, with their Solent Offshore Renewable Energy Consortium project (SOREC) were very much in favour.

The Isle of Wight is of course host to the brilliant Vestas blades factory and inspirational R & D facility.

Wonderful, ground-breaking expertise on an otherwise impecunious island.

So it's a great shame that a brilliant local enterprise exports globally but not to the benefit of the locals.

Many calls were made at the time for the other windfarm - associated jobs in Dorset too (not to mention clean energy for the whole of Dorset) but those calls were ignored.

Cllr Greene will be aware too of the young people's support for the project at the time and even more so since.

Rishi Sunak, in speaking of the "light at the end of the tunnel," is failing to warn us that it is alas the climate express rushing towards us.

Susan Chapman

Southbourne