TWO members of the Environment and Public Services Committee, including its vice-president, are today considering their positions after being blamed by their president for the Trinity landfill controversy.
Deputies Jackie Hilton and Mike Taylor - along with Deputy Terry Le Main - were on the applications sub-committee which gave conditional approval for the scheme.
They have insisted that they were never made aware that thousands of truckloads of rubble would be dumped on the site and that they thought the five fields would be levelled using material dug out from the reservoir planned on the site.
They said that they believed the application was purely agricultural and they were astounded to discover later that it was to be a commercial landfill site for three years.
But Senator Philip Ozouf, who took over at Planning in March, told the Canavan inquiry into the scheme on Monday that the scale of the scheme was clear to him when he reviewed the files.
And he said: ‘I think that the people that must account for this decision are the decision makers and they are the politicians on the sub-committee.’
Article posted on 21st July, 2004 - 12.00am
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