Following a recent post to the Sutton website on the 21st February 2014 entitled “The Gathering“, we have received a response from Dart Energy … or probably more accurately, their PR company. The message was sent to the Clerk of the Parish Council by email on the 21st February 2014.
We received the original copy on the 19th February 2014 from an individual who issued a press release to Trax FM, Radio Nottingham and the Sutton Spotlight email addresses. The article also been published on the Retford Times and Retford Life Twitter feeds, but there may be more.
The Sutton site aims to provide information which may be of interest to the residents of the village; it does not take sides. The article was published because of interest already displayed in the village at the Parish Council meeting of the 12th February 2014 and the subsequent reporting of this in the Retford Times of the following week.
In case anyone is wondering why or how Dart Energy is aware of what is being published on the Sutton site:
- a Dart Energy email address was registered as a subscriber to our splendid automated email updates in December last year
- at the same time a different Dart Energy email address was registered as a member of the Sutton Forums
- and on the 23rd February 2014 Dart Energy became a follower of the @SuttonCumLound Twitter feed
Unfortunately, we only received Dart’s response today (23rd February 2014), which may have negated some of what they had to say in terms of The Gathering on the 22nd February 2014. But, in the interest of transparency and balance, the full transcript of their message follows below. This has not been altered or edited in any way, other than removing blank lines. The link at the end of the message to the attached document referred to has been added.
The message and attachment has been forwarded to the sender of the original press release and the copy list on that email.
Message from Dart Energy – 21 February 2014
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 16:08:19 +0000
Subject: Dart Energy
From: peter.reilly@vigocomms.com
To: clerk@suttoncumlound.net
Dear Mr Johnson,