Action on starting discussions on Loch Striven lay ups
published this on 4:17 pm, Sunday, 19th July, 2009Business| Community News| Environment| Loch Striven Ship Dump | Comments (rss) | Respond | Ping |
Argyll & Bute Council Leader, Dick Walsh and Jim Mather, Argyll’s MSP, are moving the Loch Striven situation towards discussion between all interested parties.
Mr Mather has asked Robert Pollock and Andrew Law to help bring together a ‘community of the people and entities who are or could be affected or involved’ in the matter. His view is that the Council, ‘with its structure and resource, would take the lead, as the matter impinges not only on local people but also on the roles and resources that are under Council control’.
Council Leader Dick Walsh has also said that he is ‘more than willing to sit around the table and to work out a solution here’.
Councillor Walsh goes on to say that: ‘All parties will require to come to the table in a willing and flexible way that will ensure a sustainable solution in the best interest of all’.
This is also Mr Mather’s view and, coming from two experienced negotiators, this is not only a wise requirement but one proven in the heat of a variety of situations.
The reality is that in any mature agreement, everyone involved gives and takes and for good reason. There are genuine needs and interests on all sides.
It will not be pain free for either but so long as there is discussion, with transparency, with mutual respect and with a will on both sides to reach an agreement each can live with, whatever is agreed will be the right result.
What has been quite wrong here has been the use of sheer power to ignore and disregard those most adversely affected by what is of immense benefit to private enterprise, simply because these communities are seen as of no account.
The lack of transparency and of communication, the knowingly misleading statements – all have been equally inept and damaging for Clydeport. This has not been the management style or competence one expects of 21st century business. It has been more redolent of buccaneering imperialist times, long gone. That will have to change, in the company’s own interests.
Related Posts
The Latest News from ForArgyll delivered via email, weekly or daily. You know it makes sense!
Comments (rss) | Respond | Ping | | Print This Post
Loading...
July 19th, 2009 at 4:22 pm
[...] 19th July: Argyll and Bute Council Leader, Dick Walsh and Jim Mather, Argyll’s MSP, are moving matters towards discussions between all interested parties – see news item. [...]
July 19th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
[...] for more details « Ceilidh Trail round Ireland & Scotland begins in Lochgoilhead Action on starting discussions on Loch Striven lay ups [...]
August 13th, 2009 at 11:11 am
[...] Update 16.00 19th July: Council Leader, Dick Walsh and Jim Mather, Argyll’s MSP, are moving matters towards discussions between all interested parties. See separate story. [...]