FacebookMedia release 02/07/09
Sustainable Shetland to recheck petition numbers.
In an press release issued yesterday, Wednesday 1 July, Sustainable Shetland said it had collected 3605 authenticated signatures.
Despite checking, it seems that some duplicate signatures may still be present, although it is not expected to make a significant difference to the final tally. Sustainable Shetland wishes to apologise for this error, and will recheck the petition signatures and numbers.
Speaking on behalf of the Sustainable Shetland Committee, vice chair Kevin Learmonth said “We made a mistake and missed some duplicate signatures, and we have to put our hand up and say we are sorry. We are already beginning the process to recheck the petition sheets for duplicate entries.”
Mr Learmonth ended by saying that:
“A new total number of signatures will be released once all the petition sheets have been re-checked from scratch”.
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Sustainable Shetland is a campaign group opposed to very large scale wind farms in Shetland. We believe these large industrial projects are damaging to our local environment. We believe that the Viking Energy Project endangers Shetland Community Funds, and that project costs are underestimated, whilst project income grossly overestimated.
We believe that the Viking Energy proposals are everything we do not need in Shetland: they are financially risky and may damage the Shetland environment.
We want to see sustainable renewable energy projects in Shetland, and that these projects should be fit for scale, and provide real community benefit.
We aim to go beyond just being just an "anti-wind power campaign".
