Naval Service wrote of concerns 7 years ago
Sharing the island with Irish Steel, subsequently Irish Ispat, the navy expressed their worries in writing before and after the steel plant closed down in June of 2001.
Just one month before the jobs were lost and the doors closed for the last time on a working facility, a naval officer questioned who would end up paying for the “proper decommissioning” of the plant and the subsequent clean-up.
