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Trouble for Gormley, Bord Pleanala Give Permission for Bigger Poolbeg Incinerator
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Bord Pleanala has laid a bed of nails for Minister Gormley. They have granted permission for the Poolbeg incinerator to go ahead with a capacity of 600,000. The inspector report recommended that the incinerator should only have a capacity of 500,00 tonnes at the most but DCC want the 600,000 to make up the shortfall when they hit their target of recycling 59% of waste.
The Minister may have been prepared to take the hit on a capacity of 400,000 nationally split between Cork and Meath but one suspects that a 600,000 capacity incinerator in his constituency will be a bit of a problem for him going forward. He hasn’t spoken on radio yet but the six o’clock bulletins should carry some audio.
What can he do now? Does he go against government on this or tough it out against Lucinda, Ruairi Quinn and others such as Rory Hearne who have been slating him all evening on this one. This is a decision he knew was going to happen but it is clear the volume will come as both a huge surprise and possibly an insurmountable problem for him.
Please see An Bord Pleanala transcripts for submission supporting points 1 to 8 below.
1. Dublin City Council appears to hoodwink the public with its cynically produced Incinerator Images.
2. The Incinerator is an eyesore worthy of a banana republic.
3. An Incinerator would cause 90-300 premature deaths each year
4. Incineration creates & instantly releases greenhouse gases (One Million Tonnes annually, Phase 2)
5. Incineration particles cause uncontrollable global dimming
6. Incineration increases total waste, increases bin taxes and increases toxicity
7. Incineration scares away High-tech employers to other countries and decreases house prices by 38%(Survey of 300 million US population).
8. Some of DCC’s incinerator reports appear to seriously mislead the public (evidence: See Bord Pleanala Oral Hearing transcripts, Dublin Port Company and http://www.fiasco.ie).
Summary of m Bord Pleanala Oral Hearing Submission is here:
http://www.incinerator.tk/
To see what the eyesore could do to Dublin Bay
you can search flickr by entering “dublin bay incinerator”
into the search box at http://www.flickr.com.