EU officials inspect Haulbowline toxic dump

OFFICIALS from the EU Commission inspected the Haulbowline toxic dump in Cork harbour yesterday.

They wanted to see first-hand the scale of the environmental disaster at the former steel-works plant and examine what’s being done to manage the 500,000 tonnes of toxic waste dumped there.

It contains mountainous slag heaps — byproducts of the steel-making process — including the deadly carcinogen chromium 6 and a number of heavy metals.