Letters / Public has a right to know
An article on the Shetland Times website about the ‘SICT’ meeting on Monday suggests that “scores of protesters (are) expected to be there from the anti-Viking group Sustainable Shetland”, when in actual fact no such call has been made.
It is within the right of any concerned individual whether for or against the development to attend this meeting.
What Jeff Goddard is proposing is a cash call on charitable funds at a time when deep cuts are being proposed which affect the lives of ordinary Shetlanders.
This will not be last of these calls; therefore the Shetland public has an absolute right to know how their money has been/is being spent.
‘SICT’ as partners should therefore call a meeting of the Viking Energy Partnership so that the other two partners can explain their positions to the trustees, given that they are in a partnership with a publically accountable body.
Surely such a course of action is written into the partnership agreement, if not why not? What kind of “partnership” have we been signed up to? We need to be told.
Dave Hammond
Skeld
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