Incinerator plan: oral hearing protest

ANTI-INCINERATION groups will protest today at the opening of an oral hearing into plans to burn household waste at a thermal treatment plant in Co Meath.

The company behind the proposals, Indaver Ireland, face a second oral hearing in less than a fortnight - the first was to examine plans in Cork for a toxic waste incinerator in Ringaskiddy. The company is proposing an €85 million municipal waste plant in the Boyne Valley at Carranstown, between Drogheda and Dulleek,

The Green Party, backed by anti-incineration groups from Meath and Louth, will stage a protest outside the oral hearing in Dundalk, convened by the Environmental Protection Agency.