Greens TD urges incinerator ban

THE Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will lose all credibility, if it does not withdraw the draft licence which it has granted for the country’s first €93m toxic waste incinerator in County Cork, Green Party TD Dan Boyle said yesterday.

Mr Boyle made his plea on the opening day of the EPA's oral hearing into the draft licence to Indaver Ireland to build a toxic waste and municipal waste incinerator at Ringaskiddy.

"If the EPA fails to withdraw the licence then it will confirm what many believe, that this is a flawed process verging on farce," said Mr Boyle.