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Skunnered

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  1. ^^We're underneath the writing just off the Moray Firth, of course!
  2. ^^Could the CT not just simply "gift" the tunnels or bridges to the Shetland community?
  3. ^^If thorium has all the benefits described in Wikipedia, I wonder why it hasn't been widely used for power generation a long time ago. It would be interesting to know the scientific / technical reasons for its use being abandoned away back in the sixties. I would have thought that this is something that the governments would jump at.
  4. ^^I wonder why no-one thought of this before now?
  5. Maybe we should do the same with our wind.
  6. ^^So no parallel with being a Councillor, then! (Apologies for sarcasm)
  7. It probably costs about 2p per litre to bring it up to Shetland by tanker, maybe 3p at most.
  8. Yep, there is a very good reason: because they can get away with it!
  9. ^^Perhaps we are now part of the Western Isles?
  10. ^^Good idea. Perhaps you should drop an e-mail to our two MPs?
  11. I don't understand what SVT has got to do with the hight fuel prices in Shetland. There's only one company responsible for the high prices, and as far as I can see there's no pressure being put on them to do anything about it.
  12. I don't understand what SVT has got to do with the hight fuel prices in Shetland. There's only one company responsible for the high prices, and as far as I can see there's no pressure being put on them to do anything about it.
  13. Shetland will be national headlines very shortly when we are the first to hit the £1.50 /litre mark. Very shortly!
  14. What's your definition of a "pitbull type"? More importantly, what's your definition of a "muppet"?
  15. I would imagine that the main problem is not so much the underlying wind speed, but the sudden gusts, which can be about double the constant wind speed and is therefore much more damaging.
  16. A blip in December - so that will be weather, then?
  17. ^^justlookin: Now surely you didn't expect AT to fall for that one!
  18. Bob Ainsworth has called for drugs to be decriminalised and properly regulated. Sounds like good sense to me, but I can't see the public or politicians ever agreeing to it. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12005824[/url]
  19. ^^That's very true, but I'm sure I saw somewhere that, when asked about their claim that income was "guaranteed", VE said that they already had agreement for the selling price of the power well into the future. Can't remember where I saw that though, maybe someone else is aware of this statement?
  20. ^^I agree KTL. I'm not really concerned about any possible future "deal" between SSE and the private (Burradale) shareholders, but I am rather suspicious about the Joint Venture being set up as a private partnership as opposed to a limited company, so that the public are unable to see any of the details, either of the agreement, or any of the management decisions or transactions. The whole thing is veiled in a cloud of secrecy, which is very bad considering that this whole project belongs to the Shetland community who are denied access to what's going on. I can understand, to some extent, why the contract between the JV and SSE for the sale of the power should not be made public in full detail, because that is a commercial contract involving a public limited company (SSE), but I do believe that the essential elements of it should be told to the public because then the Shetland public would be in a better position to judge the level of risk that's being undertaken on their behalf. I'm astounded that even some of the Councillors are not privy to all of the detail. Now that's a real worry. Is it because they can't be bothered to enquire, or are they not allowed to know?
  21. ^^Thanks for that MuckleJoannie. The plot thickens!
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