Indaver proposes to restart Poolbeg incinerator project

Waste management firm Indaver has proposed to take over the stalled project to build a controversial incinerator at Poolbeg in Dublin, with no further cost to the taxpayer.

The Belgian-owned company, which is also involved in a long-running campaign to build an incinerator at Ringaskiddy in Cork, has offered to finance the estimated €300m cost of the Poolbeg facility if the current contract between Dublin City Council and US energy firm Covanta to build the facility is terminated.

Indaver has offered to buy out Covanta’s interest in Dublin Waste To Energy — the company set up to build the incinerator at the Poolbeg site. Alternatively, it has called on Dublin City Council, on behalf of the four local authorities in the capital, to reissue a tender for the project.