Dear All,
If there was any doubt, Rodney's complaint confirms the attitude of most of the DHT directors. Mr Turnbull makes statements in the press that are pure fabrication and defamatory but they are taken as Gospel by his disciples. Like him, no attempt to debate the point and risk getting found to be wrong but just defame me and avoid the debate.
Clearly, my rebuttal is anything but "negative". On the contrary it paints a positive picture of the Link Group activities and promises hope that we can come to a compromise about development plans. We hope you all find our re-structuring proposal positive and can see we'd never have to re-visit all this type of nonsense again.
Regards
Iain
 
Iain Maddox <[email address]>
25 Jan (7 days ago)
to Bryan, rscott, bcc: me
 
Dear Sir,
Please allow me to respond to your article on the resignation of Stuart Turnbull from the Dunbar Harbour Trust and the many comments posted on your website.
Via the Link Group, Dunbar Fishermen's Association and Dunbar Harbour Trust representatives are working together on a number of harbour projects including putting a report together that identifies all the repair work required to both the Victoria and Cromwell harbour walls. We will then work together to raise funding from various sources, including Marine Scotland, and implement repairs.
What is confusing matters, and giving scope to malicious mischief makers, is the fact that the DFA does not support Dunbar Harbour Developments Ltd harbour development plan in its current format. Whilst our aims are aligned, we have legitimate concerns about the design and implementation and have proposed amendments. It will not be tensions that could see renewables companies go elsewhere but allowing a not-fit-for-purpose design to be built. Dunbar councillors have attended various members meetings when these matters have been discussed and they can confirm, I'm sure, there was no scope for members to be misled or misinformed!
At a recent Link Group meeting attended by East Lothian Council officials, we secured a commitment for them to provide a consultant engineer to sanity check the two designs. With a fresh pair of eyes on the problem we can be hopeful of achieving a consensus in due course. Accordingly, we can have our walls secured for the longer term, the lifeboat back in the harbour, we can grow the fishing industry, provide more mooring for leisure craft and attract new business such as windfarm maintenance.
Kind Regards 
 

----- Original Message ----- From: "Kate & Rod" <[email address]>
To: "Hampshire, Norman" <[email address]>
Cc: "McCrorie, Alex" <[email address]>; "Baty, Richard" <[email address]>; "Veitch, Michael (Councillor)" <[email address]>; "Innes, Willie" <[email address]>; "Peter Johnstone Email" <[email address]>
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 6:30 PM
Subject: Re: Council's meeting with DFA


Dear Norman,

in light of the agreement to stop negative correspondence it's a pity that the Secretary of the DFA saw fit not to retract his letter printed in today's Courier.

Some Trust members are calling for action, which I can deflect in the short term, but the DFA must be seen to be taking this seriously and I would appreciate it if you could tell them so.

Kind Regards,

Rodney.

-----Original Message----- From: Hampshire, Norman
Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 1:36 PM
To: Kate & Rodney ([email address])
Cc: McCrorie, Alex ; Baty, Richard ; Veitch, Michael (Councillor) ; Innes, Willie ; Peter Johnstone Email
Subject: Council's meeting with DFA

Rodney

The Council held a meeting with the Fishermen last night to discuss the issues we discussed on Sunday. It was a very positive meeting and the Fishermen were in full support of the Council getting involved.

During this meeting they indicated that they support the Harbour Trust but would like to see changes in the representation on the Board. They would also like to see changes to the procedures for decision being taken that effect the Fishing industry.

It looks like there is potential for moving things forward and reducing the conflict that takes place between the Trust and the DFA. The Council will now consider our position and the changes we would like to see to enable us to take a more active position on the Trust.

To give us some time to try and bring this together I have asked the Fishermen not to send any more negative emails regarding the Trust and I would ask the Trust Directors to do the same.

Thanks Norman

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Kind Regards
Iain Maddox