Call for more intensive pollution monitoring

THE Environmental Protection Agency are closely studying a scientist’s allegations of bias in their investigation into farm animal deaths at Askeaton, Co Limerick.

No formal response is expected from the Agency until they complete their study of Professor Brian Alloway’s review of the EPA’s four year investigation.

Following the Alloway review, and an EPA admission that unplanned emissions of potentially toxic substances occurred earlier this year, farmers in Askeaton have called for more intensive pollution monitoring.