Councillor Ross Vettraino (OBE) talks rubbish on STV News

Fife Councillor R J Vettraino (OBE) recently invited residents to 'phone him when there is a smell so that he could come out and visit. The problem with this approach is:

• SEPA (the industry and site regulator) has already confirmed there is such a serious breach of the operating permit that they have issued an enforcement notice to cap the cell by 9th March. Specifically, the breach was that odours are detectable out-with the boundary of the site. They got to this point due to the volume of calls received by the public.

"Stench? What stench?" Councillor R J Vettraino (OBE) had continued to battle with residents about the veracity of their claims that they are being stunk out of their homes. His views might be expressed as:

'Even if there was a smell, it's coming from agriculture, or the Collessie quarry'.

'I'm prepared to visit your home to personally deny there is a smell from the landfill site'.

Yesterday in an STV News interview about the stink, Councillor Vettraino suddenly changed his story and announced "We suspect there was a source of waste that was giving rise to the difficulty, we've now stopped that source of waste. The waste from that source is in the current cell. When we get the cell capped off there will be no problem".

What waste? from where? What trash!

He's gone from 'the stink does not exist and if it does it's not coming from Fife Councils, Lower Melville Woods Landfill Site' to 'We know the cause and it's sorted'. Can we believe anything Councillor Vettraino says or is he just talking rubbish!

The official SEPA advice is not to phone Councillor Vettraino but rather report Fife Councils breach of their permit to SEPA by calling 01592 776910