Roche casts doubt on Roadstone dump denial

ENVIRONMENT Minister Dick Roche last night challenged Roadstone’s assertion that it never knew more than 50,000 tonnes of illegal and partially hazardous waste had been dumped on its land in Wicklow.

Roche casts doubt on Roadstone dump denial

Speaking after the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) refused a Roadstone application for a landfill licence at the site, Mr Roche said he had very little sympathy for the fact that the company would now have to pay millions to locate the waste in legal landfills elsewhere.

“I simply find it so difficult to accept the excuse that nobody knew. 50,000 tonnes of waste is a lot of material and it’s very, very hard to see how that could have gone on without somebody in the company knowing about it,” he said.

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