IN your editorial about water shortages (July 26) you raise percipient points to do with three linked looming problems: the need to provide additional water, energy independence and a stimulus to the economy.

YOU have written (March 27) that Ireland’s electric vehicles (EVs) will require additional sources of power.

IN his letter (September 22), Dr Philip Michael was selective in quoting from the joint report of the OECD and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to criticise statements made by Dr Philip Walton at the recent peak oil and gas conference in Cork.

ACCORDING to Mr Con Hayes (The Irish Examiner Letters, March 1). scientist Professor Philip Walton and engineer Frank Turvey, members of the Better Environment with Nuclear Energy group, face a “moral dilemma” in their advocacy of nuclear power as the solution to Ireland’s energy problems.