In February 2007, as shadow minister of the environment, Chris Huhne said: "The doubling of our electricity generation from wind in a little more than a year shows what renewables can do and gives the lie to the need for a new generation of nuclear power . . . On a windy island surrounded by waves and tides, we should never be short of envi ronmentally friendly energy sources." By the autumn of 2010, however, he was telling the Lib Dems to back a new generation of nuclear power stations. Having seen the dangers to life and the environment that may be approaching from the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant, it is high time Huhne turned full circle and swung round to his earlier sane and rational position. Rae Street Littleborough, Lancashire