Letters / Fight far from over
I am wholly saddened by Ewing’s decision to push ahead with the Viking Project, however this fight is not over.
There is little that can be done to protect flora and fauna threatened by this development, sadly some will go at great loss to our environment.
Much can be done to help protect those croft houses and homes overshadowed by turbines and the residence therein. The precedent has been legally set and turbine operators have been forced to buy out, rehome and compensate people whose lives have been blighted by the close proximity of turbines.
If elected I will continue with every legal means available to me to fight this project and fight for the residences most blighted in the shadow of 74 turbines.
I will do my utmost to try and limit environmental damage where practicable…I will press for the local authority to withdraw its Busta Estate land from the project, that at least will reduce some of the damage. This fight is far from over.
Our forthcoming election may be the one of the most important Shetland has had for very many years.
Quite apart from the Viking project, Shetland folk have a chance to indicate how they regard Salmond and Ewing. Both lacked the common courtesy to ask Shetland folk for their opinion.
A formal and binding referendum would have stopped this community being divided by this issue, and prevented much antipathy, hurt and upset.
It is very clear the Nationalist agenda takes no heed to the wishes of Shetland folk. I urge all council election candidates to formally state their views and opinions, without prevarication, about the Scottish Nationalist Party and Salmond.
I, for one, advocate, wherever practicable, distancing ourselves from Salmond, the SNP and their divisive agenda.
Ian Tinkler
SIC candidate
Shetland West
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