SSE is hosting a celebratory dinner in Lerwick on Monday, 2nd September, and a ceremony on Tuesday, 3rd September, to mark the completion of the Viking wind farm.

SIC councillors and senior council officials have been invited.

We, the undersigned, request that our elected and appointed representatives do not attend an event celebrating a project that has caused significant division in our community.

Alistair Phillips-Davies (CEO of SSE) has said they are already planning more projects for Shetland and stated that community benefits should not be so extensive as to make it "uneconomic to bring in the assets in the first place". These projects lack the social license to operate here, and so should not be supported by representatives and community leaders.

By attending this event, representatives would be endorsing practices that are not in Shetland’s interests.