An explosive issue
I know that this might be a bit unusual, but I actually still feel responsible for all the decision I ever took as a Councillor, from the trivial to the massive.
I suppose I have a paternalistic concern over whether the expulsion from school we approved helped or destroyed the child concerned; whether our spending priorities actually delivered any benefits; and, as I cringe as I drive past a house we gave planning permission for,just how many others mistakes like that are there?
I Chaired the only Committee meeting ever held in the Western Isles to grant an explosives manufacturing licence (to the Range in South Uist) and having seen the Range site, I retain a keen interest in what goes on there.
I understand that last Saturday, explosives were loaded on the "Loch Nevis" in Mallaig
and shipped to Lochboisdale where they were transported to the Range.
If this is correct then it raises some eye-opening issues.
Mallaig doesn't have an explosives licence.
Lochboisdale doesn't have an explosives licence.
(But Lochmaddy does.)
And the HSE are very clear about the prohibition on handling explosives at an unlicensed harbour. If this report is correct, then there is clear breach of basic HSE guidance which can only lead to a prosecution of the Directors of CalMac.
Can anyone confirm or refute the events of last Saturday?
I suppose I have a paternalistic concern over whether the expulsion from school we approved helped or destroyed the child concerned; whether our spending priorities actually delivered any benefits; and, as I cringe as I drive past a house we gave planning permission for,just how many others mistakes like that are there?
I Chaired the only Committee meeting ever held in the Western Isles to grant an explosives manufacturing licence (to the Range in South Uist) and having seen the Range site, I retain a keen interest in what goes on there.
I understand that last Saturday, explosives were loaded on the "Loch Nevis" in Mallaig
and shipped to Lochboisdale where they were transported to the Range.If this is correct then it raises some eye-opening issues.
Mallaig doesn't have an explosives licence.
Lochboisdale doesn't have an explosives licence.
(But Lochmaddy does.)
And the HSE are very clear about the prohibition on handling explosives at an unlicensed harbour. If this report is correct, then there is clear breach of basic HSE guidance which can only lead to a prosecution of the Directors of CalMac.
Can anyone confirm or refute the events of last Saturday?
2 comments:
If you are placing all your faith in the links you have provided then your evidence is as credible as an MP's expenses claim and should be thrown out. The link for Lochboisdale shows the owners of the pier to be the Comhairle when in fact it belongs to CMAL (or Storas Uibhist if you are Laird Scopie) and just because one explicitly claims to have an explosives licence does not mean that the others do not. And, finally, M.V. Loch Nevis was nowhere near Lochboisdale last Saturday.
Angus
Assumptions made on scanty information are dangerous and should be avoided.
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