YOUR VIEWS: 'Work together to see Highland green freeport prosper'
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One reader defends green freeport status while another laments missing out in Inverness Hogmanay celebrations.
Work together to see our green freeport prosper
In a week that we celebrated the welcome news of the green light for the Cromarty Firth and Inverness freeport decision, it was no surprise to open Tuesday’s Courier and find the usual culprits trying to knock it.
All the big renewables players in the area recognise the economic and employment potential, with one describing how “this could be bigger than oil and gas”.
However we have Ariane Burgess from the Greens promoting a conspiracy theory that this may be a “Tory gimmick” that opens up the erosion of worker’s rights and even encourages drug dealing.
She is then backed up by Emma Roddick, SNP, who promotes a concern on behalf of other north communities that they may be missing out.
We all know what their agenda is.
Despite the obvious economic opportunities this freeport decision provides, it’s a pity that those who seek to divide us can’t just bite their tongues and work together with those who want this community to prosper.
Kevin Stewart
Slackbuie
Inverness
Left out of the party because we didn’t know about tickets
We have been coming to Inverness for new year since 2008.
We as a group of seven, we have very much enjoyed the concert in the park. The bands and atmosphere were always great, no overcrowding and a lot of fun – always room to dance to the music.
Since the gap for Covid, we have been looking forward to the reopening of the concert in the park.
We have friends that live in Inverness and they told us it was back on this year.
We therefore booked a cottage to stay in and were excited to be coming up again for the new year bash in the park.
We spend money in the town renting accommodation and spending on meals etc and were very disappointed this year to find out we could not go (to the concert) as we needed tickets.
We also spoke to other tourists like us who had arrived, booked accommodation and expected to go to the concert and did not know about tickets.
I have heard since that the crowd did not seem large enough to give the concert an atmosphere.
It was never overcrowded and there was a lot of people very disappointed this year.
Barbara Herring
Ayr
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