Letters / When did the council debate this?
I am writing this in response to Allan Wishart’s letter Fanatical Opposition (SN, 10/08/14).
However to understand where he is coming from you must first read Jonathan Wills’ letter Sabotaging Shetland on the Shetland Times’ website and my comment there, which Mr Wishart is referring to. It seems Mr Wishart has difficulty understanding the media trail!
I have searched and asked for the minutes of the meeting where the council debated and took the decision to lobby for an interconnector, which the council does rather obliquely in Our Islands Our Future and our Corporate Plan.
So far I have been unsuccessful in establishing where this occurred!
The next step therefore is to have that debate and decide if the majority of councillors really do want to bring industrialised renewables to Shetland, or develop renewables for Shetland alone in keeping with the scale of our landscape.
We owe it to the public to let them see which side of the fence incumbent councillors sit on.
I won’t even begin to respond to the ex Viking Energy project co-ordinator’s utterances as he hoists himself once more on the long running wave of euphoria and desperately tries to keep his balance through the mire of misleading nonsense, which has been trotted out over the last few years.
Instead I would suggest his last term spent in the Gutter’s Hut would have been better spent doing the job he was elected to do.
Only now with the benefit of new members are we beginning to sort out the mess he was involved in as chair/vice-chair of environment & transport committee and ZetTrans, whilst drawing a significant salary promoting the biggest and most damaging fantasy ever proposed for our islands.
And, by the way, as you all well know, the real Billy Fox has never stood down!
Billy Fox
Quarff
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