 The ongoing scare stories on the Scottish Government s Green energy policy are based on two reports, a professionally conservative assessment by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a highly biased and simplistic report by Citigroup.  Ian Bell rightly draws our attention to that bank s past history of insolvency and fraud, which do not inspire confidence in their opinions ( Fond kiss and a spanner among the parting shots , The Herald, November 4).  However, the nub of their argument, that without a United Kingdom to buy and subsidise electricity generated in Scotland by renewables, power would be over-expensive in an independent Scotland, does not bear scrutiny.  In the event of Scotland gaining independence, the re 