FIFE Council last week declared “a climate emergency” and Cllr Ross Vettraino, convener of the Environment & Protective Services Committee has put out a press statement “urging local people to take action where they can - whether it’s reducing food waste, using your home energy more efficiently, cycling and walking instead of driving or rethinking public transport options”.
Councillors must be having a laugh.
What about the Mossmorran complex bang in the middle of Fife? In January it came third in a list of Scotland’s biggest carbon-emitters for 2017, pumping nearly 900,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
The figures for this year will be much, much worse - thanks to major extended flaring incidents at Easter together with continuous flaring off of ethane since early August when Exxon’s ethylene plant at Mossmorran broke down.
The Scottish Government and Fife Council should be looking to shut down Mossmorran, one of Scotland’s worst polluters, before they start lecturing people about using bicycles.
B DAVIDSON
Cowdenbeath
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