Is that acceptable?

In his letter Billy’s search can be stood down (SN, 11/08/14), Jonathan Wills has very helpfully given examples of how the council ‘policy’ on an interconnector has been presented and sits in various plans almost as a fait accompli, which is exactly my point.

Not once in past councils or this one have we specifically debated and taken a decision with regard to an interconnector cable and its implications, and that is where my concern lies.

We owe it to the Shetland public to do so; the commercial viability of a large scale interconnector requires a critical mass of renewables far exceeding the proposed Viking Energy wind farm.

Westminster and Holyrood have set a political agenda, which essentially would turn our islands into an industrialised landscape of renewable electricity for export to mainland Scotland. Is that acceptable?

With regard to VE, another pressing question which needs answering is the view held by the Office of the Scottish Charities Regulator on the Shetland Charitable Trust’s level of investment.

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If indeed OSCR do have a limiting view, how long has the SCT been aware of this and why has this information not been made available to the council and the public?

Jonathan Wills could answer this as vice chair of SCT and I ask that question as a beneficiary of the SCT and member of the Shetland public.

Billy Fox
Quarff