EPA told incinerator will pose threat to health

A PROPOSED waste incinerator will pose a further threat to the health of residents of the Ringsend area of Dublin in a suburb that had already suffered considerable pollution, an oral hearing of the Environmental Protection Agency was told yesterday.

Objectors to the controversial incinerator planned for the Poolbeg peninsula claim no study has ever been carried out to establish if existing industries in the area could be responsible for a high incidence of cancer and respiratory problems among young people from Ringsend.

The oral hearing is being held by the EPA to listen to objections and concerns about its proposed decision to license Dublin City Council to operate a non-hazardous waste incinerator at Poolbeg.