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PERMISSION HAS BEEN granted for the building of the controversial incinerator in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.
The 17-year plan to put an incinerator at the Indaver site in Ringaskiddy had been met with resistance from the community, local politicians and members of PDFORRA, the Defence Forces representative body.
Despite this opposition, waste company Indaver has been now been granted permission by An Bord Pleanála to build the waste-to-energy incinerator in Cork Harbour.
The company applied in December 2015 to build the incinerator.
It was the third application to build an incinerator on the site since 2001.
An application to build the plant was rejected by An Bord Pleanala in 2011 on the grounds that the plan did not adequately plan for flooding or coastal erosion.
Previous hearings took place in 2003 and 2009, and inspectors at both recommended refusal for the project, with the 2009 inspector’s recommendation being carried by the Bord, and a planning refusal issued in 2011.
Two days before Christmas 2015 An Bord Pleanala ruled the incinerator constitutes strategic infrastructure development, allowing for another application.
Indaver submitted a planning application to An Bord Pleanála for a 240,000 tonne per annum waste-to-energy facility in Ringaskiddy.
The facility will treat household, commercial, industrial, non-hazardous and suitable hazardous waste, generating approximately 18.5MW of electricity for export to the national grid.
Oral hearings were held in April and May 2016 and a final decision has been expected for almost two years.
Commenting on the ABP decision today, Green Party leader Eamon Ryan told RTÉ’s Today With Sean O’Rourke that it was “hugely disappointing”.
“We’re not going into a world where we should be burning our rubbish,” he said.
Ryan said that burning of waste was a thing done in the past and that the world needed to move towards a circular economy of recycling and renewal.
“This is Government policy driving it. I think they do want and they could have stopped it at any stage,” he said.
Also speaking on the show, Mary O’Leary of the campaign group Chase said that the decision by ABP had undermined the credibility of the planning process.
“What is the point of people going through an oral hearing… and yet it is all ignored?” she said.
She described the decision as “shocking”.
“We are shocked, angry and deeply disappointed that the Bord has granted permission,” she said.
The endless delays in coming to this decision was always a cause for concern but we hoped against hope that the Bord would make the right decision.
Fine Gael Cork South Central Senator, Jerry Buttimer said:
“Today’s decision by An Bord Pleanála is extremely disappointing. I know it will be very frustrating for the residents and also for the Cork Harbour Alliance for a Safe Environment (CHASE) whose members have worked so hard on this matter.
“The case they made against the incinerator at the oral hearing of An Bord Pleanála was compelling.
“I stand with the people of Cork in opposition to this incinerator.”
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The ” Indo” coverage of the election was a disgrace. Balanced and unbiased it wasn’t.
Govt have no need to control the media when they have bootlickers like the editor of the “indo” doing their bidding.
A gay person being the first and only candidate elected for the far-right Führer party is what I want to see being covered! The membership want him removed now!!
During the referendum the journal ran 19 articles in favour with only 1 against.
For the local council the journal ran links to most candidates in each region. The questionaire section remained blank for independents and fully filled out for any main party candidates. Authers could not stay away from slandering some candidates instead of leaving it to the public. So overall very biased coverage to support their advertisers in my opinion.
Gavan Reilly has set the standard. Ask around about his coverage.
Also, delighted to see Chris MacManus getting eliminated. Airdropped chancer who abstained on over 1200 votes. Hopefully Wallace will follow him into the dustbin of obscurity.
This person calls themselves a media expert and goes on to congratulate the status quo.
The only ones doing proper journalism, appears to be ontheditch.
They have broken a story on the current Mayor of Limerick, which if any of the current shower were doing proper journalism would have ferreted out. It might have changed the outcome of his election. Not saying he is not the right person, but people deserve to know the truth.
A proper journalist would have started asking questions, considering he was in cahoots with Michael Noonan, who laid the groundwork for a lot of the structural problems we have. He also invited in the big private equity companies.
I found Allison O Connor so biased against Sinn Fein. I think the European elections should be first past the post. Do the people who are elected really fight for Ireland. They are more concerned about what group they will join. Very disrespectful of Pat Rabbite to describe some candidates as fruitcases.
@rory Mcgovern: Yes: fruitcakes or nutcases would have been better.
I think SF did more than enough ‘fighting for Ireland’ back in the day.
Bored the feckin life out of me, reporting on a week long count.
@Sean Money: if it bored you so much I suggest that you spend less time on The Journal. Just a thought. You might just make yourself, and a lot of other people, very happy
@SYaxJ2Ts: you seem to enjoy the long count. I hope you enjoy all your money received.
Probably spent more time on Twitter over the last week than the previous six months combined. I love a good debate but the TV format can be pretty crap with people shouting over each other, would love to see more podcast content for the next election where people can share their policies or debate in smaller groups so it doesn’t just become a shouting battle.
Does any off it matter?! You all gona put FFG back in.. And then write your little comments. At least Russia is upfront about not being upfront…
It was great that only 5 racists out of 900 got elected, a good weekend for democracy.
@Jacintha Dumbrell: You’re missing the bigger picture, though.
First, the established parties moved to the left in order to hover up SF votes, but they don’t need to any longer because SF have betrayed their supporters and the country.
FFG are now moving back to their natural centre right position to get the support of anti-emmigrat movements (who are generally not far right).
@Thomas Sheridan: The big picture is that many SF voters hadn’t been left-wing at all: they had been ethnonationalist, and transferred easily to the far right over what they perceived as SF’s betrayal of ethnonationalism.
The centre-right parties (FG/FF) remained centre-right and were unaffected.
@Thomas Sheridan: yes FFG needed all 0.9% of far-right support!!!!!! 0.9% pushed them from centre-right to centre-right!!! Keep pushing the farther right to a capitalist utopia where we can have complete privatisation of housing and total landlordism! The mental gymnastics of these extreme-right Nativists!!!!
@Jacintha Dumbrell: ah buy the seeds are now sown
The media coverage was appalling. It was so biased on all mediums. Newer candidates and parties were never given a chance to get their point across or a chance to challenge the status quo parties. We need a strong opposition, Sinn Fein, labour and social democrats are not that.
The so called “far right” were labelled by the media and politicians.
When people used to spout about mainstream media etc I used to roll my eyes, I know realise that people were right.
A proper head to head debate with new voices and faces is what was missed in this election coverage . Rte and tv3 trot out the same faces time and time again for sound bites. Let’s get some new voices, the new Irish immigrants, the far right, the far left. Let them speak and challenge those currently in power
Sf didn’t have the election they expected but still increased their seats greens had a train wreck of an election lost 2 meps and over half their council seats yet this hasn’t been said its not even on the papers rte and all media were bious against sf I expect every party to get equal coverage independents weren’t even invited in full to debates independent ireland for a new party did very well not even mentioned
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