An uneasy, but necessary, truce
It seems like everyone is now pulling together to fight the decision intention to close the rocket range in Uist.
With cross-party delegations to Westminster and a united front to attack the decision, the only people out of step are the MOD and their puppet, Qinetiq.
You know, of course, that the unusual agreement is just a truce until situation resolves itself, and you can see the daggers being slipped in and the lies of attack are being drawn up just in case the campaign doesn't succeed, but let's hope that a united front is successful in this instance.
Through this blog the community have highlighted certain apparently improper waste practices, and these need urgent attention. If there is contaminated land, or worse still, contaminated seas, then these must be remedied and those costs recognised before any decision is taken.
Wouldn't it be right for the Council to immediately undertake contaminated land surveys on the range and consider investigating any marine dumps? We all remember the problems with chemical weapons appearing on the beaches in Barra; which is probably not the welcome we want to give to tourists.
Older hands in the Council will remember the views and knowledge of Cllrs Roddy MacKinnon (Barra) and Jimmy MacArthur who each brought their different experiences to the Environmental Services Committee of the Comhairle. That information needs to be drawn back out again, as after Qinetiq leave it is going to be too late - they may have to pay to clean it up, but the work and the future will have gone.
With cross-party delegations to Westminster and a united front to attack the decision, the only people out of step are the MOD and their puppet, Qinetiq.
You know, of course, that the unusual agreement is just a truce until situation resolves itself, and you can see the daggers being slipped in and the lies of attack are being drawn up just in case the campaign doesn't succeed, but let's hope that a united front is successful in this instance.
Through this blog the community have highlighted certain apparently improper waste practices, and these need urgent attention. If there is contaminated land, or worse still, contaminated seas, then these must be remedied and those costs recognised before any decision is taken.
Wouldn't it be right for the Council to immediately undertake contaminated land surveys on the range and consider investigating any marine dumps? We all remember the problems with chemical weapons appearing on the beaches in Barra; which is probably not the welcome we want to give to tourists.
Older hands in the Council will remember the views and knowledge of Cllrs Roddy MacKinnon (Barra) and Jimmy MacArthur who each brought their different experiences to the Environmental Services Committee of the Comhairle. That information needs to be drawn back out again, as after Qinetiq leave it is going to be too late - they may have to pay to clean it up, but the work and the future will have gone.
6 comments:
What truce?
DJ MacSween has been provided with a perfect platform by the Labour lovies in the Comhairle to pursue his goal of becoming our next MP.
It can only be hoped that the voters see him for what he is - an opportunistic individual loathed by his Labour colleagues for being elected their Westminster candidate ahead of them.
Anon 3.43 PM. Could you name the Labour colleagues he is loathed by?
Quicker to name the ones he isn't loathed by.....
Well it is well seen is so loathed by his colleagues that 27 of them voted him on to the task force and only 3 poisonous Nats voted against him. At least Annie Macdonald showed she wanted to see someone who would work for the Western Isles on the task force, rather than Thrombosis and Julian Clary.
I think 'anon' was talking about Macsween being loathed by Labour colleagues such as Alasdair Morrison (wanted to be the Labout candidate), Norman Macdonald (wanted to be the Labour candidate), Charlie Nicholson (against Sunday sailings), Archie Campbell etc. As for Annie Macdonald, she's too scatty to know what's going on in the Comhairle - and she looks out more for herself than for the SNP.
Rumour has it that Angus Campbell had to apologise for not mentioning that DJ was at some task force meeting in London. This just proves DJ's only on the task force to get publicity for his election campaign. At least those in Point will get some peace for a while.
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