20th December 2006, 02:41 PM
Posted by Unit of 1:
Unit of 1,
I am one of the 'interesting collection of archaeologists' based in an engineering consultancy firm that you refer to, and I am also a specialist in EIA as a whole. Most of my work nowadays consists of managing the overall EIA process, including coordination of all the different specialist disciplines involved, of which archaeology is only one.
The EIA process as it is organised in Britain (and, in fact, everywhere else) is certainly flawed, and I will quite happily engage in a debate about the problems of EIA and why it is not always as effective as it could be in relation to archaeology or any other aspect of the environment.
However, I think that we could have a much more useful debate if we keep it on the issues, and avoid making pointlessly offensive insinuations about the motivations, competence or honesty of whole groups of highly-trained professionals, especially if in the same post you admit to not knowing much about the subject.
1man1desk
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Quote:quote:Engineering consultant firms are all over this EU money EIA world like a rash with their interesting collection of âarchaeologistsâ.
Unit of 1,
I am one of the 'interesting collection of archaeologists' based in an engineering consultancy firm that you refer to, and I am also a specialist in EIA as a whole. Most of my work nowadays consists of managing the overall EIA process, including coordination of all the different specialist disciplines involved, of which archaeology is only one.
The EIA process as it is organised in Britain (and, in fact, everywhere else) is certainly flawed, and I will quite happily engage in a debate about the problems of EIA and why it is not always as effective as it could be in relation to archaeology or any other aspect of the environment.
However, I think that we could have a much more useful debate if we keep it on the issues, and avoid making pointlessly offensive insinuations about the motivations, competence or honesty of whole groups of highly-trained professionals, especially if in the same post you admit to not knowing much about the subject.
1man1desk
to let, fully furnished