12/07/2006 (Agence Europe) - In an open letter addressed to the participants of the G8 summit, representatives of the global wind industry have called upon G8 leaders to build on the momentum created by the 2005 Gleneagles Summit and to make a strong commitment to a sustainable and secure energy future. The letter, signed by representatives of the American, Canadian, European and Japanese Wind Energy Associations, under the umbrella of the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC), warns: “The world is on the verge of an energy crisis. It is the responsibility of the leaders of the industrialised nations to turn a corner to move away from the world's unsustainable reliance on finite, polluting and unsafe energy sources”. The associations concerned consider that growing investment in the production of oil and gas and the production of nuclear energy does not provide a sustainable solution. They stress that “wind technology is not a dream for the future - it is real, it is mature and it can be deployed on a large scale” thanks to twenty years of technological progress. (To read the letter: http://www.gwec.net ).