Letters / Insulting Shetland’s population
Well, once again Mr Tinkler has managed to insult the majority of Shetland’s population (No comparison; SN 10/6/13).
We lack the gumption to succeed by our own ability, ignorant, can’t achieve anything on our own and only ever look for a quick buck.
All words from a man who tried to represent his area as a councillor!
Yet he says Total’s gas plant has no comparison to the wind farm.
This is the hydro carbon processing plant which requires four gas power turbines to generate power and multiple flare stacks for pressure control and to burn off excess gas, which will belch out C02 for the next 30-50 years into Shetland’s atmosphere so the UK mainland can heat their homes, causing further C02 emissions and giving absolutely no pay back in any shape or form.
And to top it all off a new quarry has opened at Scatsta airport, where up to 400,000 tonnes of rock will be removed and he is OK with it?
Agree, or don’t care about a wind farm being built on peat waste land, which is all ready letting off C02 due to erosion, a clean source of power which will be based on an island that currently has five record breaking turbines…and we are classed as idiots?
Mention Cullivoe community wind farm (which I fully support and well done to all of you) and he completely ignores you?
As I move into my week as production supervisor on a North Sea oil platform, Mr Tinkler has got me thinking what I might have achieved if I actually had any ability?
At the age of 27 could I have achieved more?
Craig Johnson
Northmavine
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