Group insists plant pay carbon energy tax

EUROPE’S largest aluminium plant must follow proposed new environmental rules, a farmers’ group warned yesterday.

Aughinish Alumina in Askeaton, Co Limerick, has claimed it will be threatened by the Government’s carbon energy tax.

The company’s public affairs manager Pat Lynch said the plant’s future will be in doubt if the Government strictly enforces the tax. More than 700 people are employed at the Co Limerick facility.