Geoffrey Halley was chairman of the American Boiler Manufacturers Association s joint technical committee from 1981 to1986 and was a member of several boiler industry advisory and working groups that were in collaboration with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy.
SNP Westminster Leader Ian Blackford rightly stated in The National recently that “we need to exit the UK as soon as possible”, and never a truer phrase was said. However, a headline around the same period offered a quote from Mr Blackford that “we must not break the law”. This apparently was a reference to those both within the SNP and wider Yes movement who advocate the use of a parliamentary mandate as a mechanism for achieving independence rather than via a referendum triggered through a Section 30. While I totally concur with Mr Blackford that we need to be united on the aim of independence, it seems to me there is a dangerous revisionism at work within elements of the current SNP leadership which prescribes a referendum, and only a referendum, as the pathway to this noble end.