Tidal power: ‘Damaging facts kept hidden from people’
Wednesday 19th November 2008, 2:29PM GMT.
DAMAGING information about Alderney’s tidal power deal is being kept from the public, according to former States member Frank Dean.
‘The tip has been released, but the piece that would have done the damage has not. I have made it very clear to the other members that I won’t disclose what we all know. I have returned all the tidal power information I had in my possession to the States. The information I have will stay with me.’
A retired engineer, Mr Dean (pictured) was the only member to vote against every tidal power proposal at last week’s hastily-arranged States meeting. He resigned at the end of it.
Initially he said that was because proper political procedures had not been followed, but he has now said that Alderney States and the Alderney Commission for Renewable Energy were hiding information from the public.
‘I could not abandon other principles that I have and I could not ignore all the hidden information. I could also not ignore the consequences that are likely,’ he said.
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Frank Dean
If as you claim have issues that need raising then it is time to speak up. Leaving things until they are too late won’t do you or anyone anyone any good at all. We are not mind readers. Your vague comments are just that! How about some cold hard facts then? Maybe you are a person from the I told you so brigade?
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Scare mongering? “Something terrible will happen! I’ll let you know what it is when it happens, and if it doesn’t it hasn’t happened yet!”
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Is it not rather ironical that we couldn’t be given the results of the water testing (re airport chicken cull), and now we have other undisclosed factoids which cannot be entrusted to the public? Are we supposed to be capable of handling one set of facts but not another – or is it just politically inconvenient?
Frank Dean has unfortunately received a lot of flack over one issue, but I do wonder whether his actions might have been better understood if the relevant facts had been made known to us poor voters………….
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Frank Dean
If there are damaging facts being kept from the public, is it not in the publics best interest for you to release this information?? seeing as you have gone as far as to resign I don’t see why you feel obligated to withhold such “Important information”. If you can’t speak up then shut up!!
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