Over the course of the last two years ENT has sent numerous questions, requests for data and information to NET. ENT has also requested access to their project consultants for more detailed information.

One would expect that, as a public body and as officers of the Council, NET would operate in an open and transparent manner and in the spirit of true consultation.

Surely, after spending several million pounds of public money in engaging expensive professional consultants, NET would have most of the answers. Responses from NET, if returned at all, have usually included a…'we are not in a position to…' or ' we do not yet have the data to be able to….' and other responses of this tone.

Question after question, request after request, seeking to understand the core of the project and the models on which the calculations have been based, and which have led NET to consider the CW route to be viable, have been either deflected or disregarded. Frequently, NET responses have been returned in a manner that has been nothing short of patronising.

As a result, over this extensive period, ENT have come to question does NET really work? Why the lack of openness and transparency? Is this a true network? Is there a hidden agenda?