A Weird Coincidence – or Black ops?

First, apologies if you have been trying to read any of my websites or email me. Apparently the server I use (Saltire hosting) has been under attack for the last few days from what I’m told is a “denier or Service Attack”.
I will now outline some facts as I know them and then must let you draw your own conclusion.

Scottish Climate and Energy Group

Back in 2012 some sceptics met in Scotland to set up a new association and at that meeting the name chosen was “Scottish Climate and Energy Group”. We did this because this domain name was available.
Unfortunately, as the organisation didn’t exist, I couldn’t stop someone who appeared to be an enthusiastic sceptic who just happened to turn up registering the domain sceg.org.uk on the spot.
However, that turned out to be disastrous for SCEG, because whilst I tried to work with the person who had registered the domain, all he seemed to want to do was to gain access to my own websites and eventually despite being polite, etc. he stopped responding to any emails.
Having worked in the wind sector I had heard rumours of “black ops” whereby people were hired to either spy on or disrupt wind protest groups. So, even at the time I thought it was quite possible that this individual had been hired by the wind developers with the intention of throttling the organisation at its birth.
Eventually, I registered another name The Scottish Climate & Energy Forum (scef.org.uk), but by then much of the momentum had gone from the idea and
Then today, I wondered what had happened to the SCEG.org.uk. So I looked it up and found that it was registered to a Paul Gibson. Thinking this was some club that just happened to have picked the same name, I was intrigued to find out what kind of organisation it might be.
I expected something innocuous like: Scunthorpe Children’s Equarian Gallop?
I found  it was being used by an organisation now called “Security in Complex Environments”. (https://www.adsgroup.org.uk/pages/24204653.asp)
Unfortunately, there’s absolutely no way to tie this latest incarnation of SCEG with the person who appeared to have acted intentionally to prevent SCEG forming. So this could be a coincidence. And what purpose would there be keeping the name – surely no security consultant worth paying for, would leave such an obvious paper trail leading to them and thence to their client!
However it does appear to be a remarkable coincidence that the original registrant appeared to be acting like a paid security “consultant” and now the site has been (re)registered to a paid security consultant.

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