EPA grants oral hearings on incinerators

THE Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted oral hearings to objectors to the country’s first toxic waste incinerator in County Cork and the first proposed municipal waste incinerator in County Meath.

While no dates have yet been set, the EPA confirmed yesterday that it will hold oral hearings into the granting of a draft waste licence for the €93 million toxic waste incinerator in Ringaskiddy early in the New Year.

An oral hearing will also be held into the granting of a draft waste licence for the €80m municipal waste incinerator at Carranstown in County Meath to Indaver Ireland.