AN BORD PLEANÁLA has refused Cork harbour residents — who have spent nine years fighting against the construction of a €150 million Indaver incinerator — further time to investigate new documentation supplied by the waste management company.

THE Health and Safety Authority (HSA) has sent documentation to An Bord Pleanála informing the board they have no issue with the granting of planning permission for Indaver’s planned 240,000 tonne municipal and hazardous waste incinerator at Cork Harbour.

THE Department of the Environment has lodged a submission to An Bord Pleanála outlining potential risks to human, plant and animal life from the proposed development of two e150 million incinerators at Cork Harbour.

CORK County Council is to urge An Bord Pleanála to reject Indaver’s plans to build incinerators in Ringaskiddy capable of burning 300,000 tonnes per annum of municipal and hazardous waste.

THE Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) yesterday defended its deferral, for a second time, of a decision on a toxic waste incinerator in Cork Harbour.

THE Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) must review its response procedures to industrial accidents after the revelation of a second caustic soda spill in the past six weeks, environmentalists and politicians said yesterday.

PROTESTERS last night said they were prepared to take a European court case against proposals to build Ireland’s first toxic waste incinerator.