How dare he!

Mr Ewing has now decided that the whimbrel are in terminal decline (Shetland Times 6/4/12)) and if it wasn’t for those lovely people from Viking Energy they would die out altogether since no-one was doing anything before.

How dare he make that comment and how dare VE suggest it!

The RSPB and Scottish Natural Heritage (who probably know a thing or two) clearly don’t feel that the VE proposal is going to do the whimbrel any favours.

And to suggest that until VE came along no-one was doing anything is to dismiss the work of many highly qualified and experienced professionals who have been working to monitor and protect the whimbrel for years – and could do more if the government made funding available for whimbrel conservation.

I find Mr Ewing’s comments and VE’s claims utterly offensive. I would advise him and the VE team to stop trying to pass themselves off as experts in fields about which they clearly know very little (and that’s being generous).

In the words of Sir Humphrey: “If you’d kept your mouth shut we might have thought you were clever.”

Robina Barton
Birka
Bressay