Incinerator will cost public ‘up to €33m a year’

CARBON dioxide emissions from a planned incinerator on Dublin Bay will cost the taxpayer up to €33 million annually, it was claimed yesterday.

At the final day of oral hearings at An Bord Pleanála’s headquarters on the planned incinerator at Poolbeg, an expert warned of potential financial, environmental and health costs.

Local resident and scientist Joe McCarthy objected to the 15-acre incinerator site, criticising submissions by its planned operators, Dublin City Council.