Greenstar battles with council over superdump

STATISTICS, and widely differing ones at that, were thrown around like confetti yesterday as opposing sides at a hearing on a controversial superdump tried to gain the upper hand.

An Bord Pleanála senior inspector Paul Caprani will have the unenviable task in the next few weeks of wading through pages and pages of evidence to see if there is actually a need to develop a €20 million landfill on the Cork/Limerick border.

The battle is essentially between Greenstar — the largest private waste operator in the country — which wants to build the landfill, and Cork County Council and locals who are firmly against it.