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Tax provides funds for new bird tour boat



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Published Date: 02 June 2008
A NEW safari boat taking visitors on Puffin-spotting tours around the Bass Rock is to be provided by tax credits from landfill sites.
The £80,000 Viridor Puffin will seat up to 12 passengers, as well as a captain and guide, and is expected to start taking tourists around the Bass Rock in July.

She is one of two new vessels which will run sightseeing trips organised by the Scottish Seabird Centre at North Berwick.

The boat is currently being fitted out at Ballachulish, but staff at the Seabird Centre have stressed that it is not being funded by Viridor Waste Management, the company behind controversial plans to build a £140 million energy-from-waste power facility at Dunbar, but from tax credits related to the company.

Tom Brock, Scottish Seabird centre chief executive, said: "Viridor Landfill Tax Credits is a government-approved organisation responsible for the distribution of landfill tax received from Viridor Waste Management in respect of operations at its landfill sites across the UK."





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  • Last Updated: 02 June 2008 11:35 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
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Ken Mare,

Edinburgh 02/06/2008 12:53:05
Staff at the centre are correct when they say that the landfill tax credit grant scheme is separate to the participating waste organisations (in this case Viridor).

However despite this distinction, staff, including Tom Brock, seem to have allowed the boat to be named after Viridor.

If Viridor forced this issue then it seems to have used influence and so undermined the independence of the landfill tax credit scheme.

If, on the other hand, the Seabird Centre has decided to name the boat, then it is plain stupid. Why not name it the Seabird Centre Puffin, or suchlike?. In fact why not be inclusive and ask local people what it might be called?

In reality it is blatant corporate advertising, with the Seabird Centre either compliant or fooled. After all Viridor didn't hand over the money out of the goodness of its heart, did it?
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Java_Man,

dunbar 02/06/2008 16:19:23
#1 Ken Mare

You have expressed my feelings exactly.


 

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