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I have seen salamander heaters on wooden floors a few feet away from liquid accelerants; unguarded machinery that was an accident waiting to happen; wiring that was sparking; safety exits completely blocked; and many other things that we must discourage.
However, Lewis Macdonald told me just this afternoon that the Executive has ruled out buying out the HIAL PFI. Will he say whether the Executive is considering buying out the offending PFI clauses, so to speak?
It is essential that, when a community buys into a development plan, it is recognised that it would be unacceptable for that community to shoulder the burden of all the opencast activity or all the landfill activity in Scotland.
It has been argued that scallops and nephrop stocks are also under pressure and that the Scottish scheme should therefore buy out capacity, targeting those stocks.