Gas plant is turned down by council

PLANS for a gas-powered electricity station that would generate enough power to light 300,000 homes have been turned down by Cork County Council.

Capable of generating 400 megawatts of electricity, the station would be smaller than the ESB plant at Aghada which has an output of 525 megawatts.

The company behind the project, Mountlawn Ltd, is based in Galway and applied last October to build the plant at Courtstown in Little Island.