Incinerator licensing provokes outcry

OUTRAGED community groups will seek an oral hearing into yesterday’s decision by the Environment Protection Agency to grant a draft licence to Indaver (Ireland) for waste incineration plants in Cork and Meath.

Residents in Cork harbour said they had no confidence in the state agency and claimed its decision was an affront to democracy and demeaning to local communities.

The EPA announcement came as harbour residents opposed to the planned Ringaskiddy plant arrived at the High Court in Dublin to seek permission for a judicial review of a Bord Pleanála decision to grant planning permission.