‘Serious concerns’ over plant’s bauxite deposits
According to Cllr Jim Long, Fine Gael, the Russian-owned company, under terms agreed in its last licence renewal, is to raise its bauxite deposits from 20 metres to 30 metres, to a height of 98.425 feet.
Aughinish, which extracts millions of tonnes of alumina, leaves huge amounts of distinctive red-coloured bauxite residue, which is stored as red mud on 450 acres of land at Askeaton, Co Limerick.
