I will be commenting and informing them of their useless rambling prattle which trys to justify their position and commercial self interests, I would suggest getting rid of the army of civil servants involved in this as they have done b all to justify themselves in the last couple of decades.
I guess the delay is because Freddie is off to SA for xmas as usual.
My comments on the initial plan consultation were all dismissed with the comment the "Minister notes this", then I received a number of e mails regarding a public meeting that I was unable to attend due to having to work, instead I submitted some written comments these were dismissed because there was a deadline for comments that I had missed.
Following this there was a consultation for a Biological recording centre, I have just received a report on this with 10 department members listed as coordinators, facilitators, and authors, now if you calculate the average pay of these people as a conservative 30K a year, that works out 300,000 pa. This is of course is just the tip of the iceberg with all the costs that these staff incur with office, car, travel expenses etc, then their superiors - directors, heads, receptionist, the list goes on. I would not begrudge this if they were actually contributing to maintaining or improving the environment, but I see very little evidence of this.
This consultation also was loaded and manipulated, the motive I guess to justify the existence of a top heavy department. In this time of financial constraints why does no one question how much is being spent to achieve next to nothing.
