Councillors lodge objection to Cork waste incinerator

Cork county councillors have lodged an 11th-hour objection to plans by Indaver to build incinerators in Cork Harbour, and a local tourist body has done the same.

Councillors representing the Cobh/Glanmire municipal district all signed a letter at a meeting yesterdaywhich was to be sent by registered post to An Bord Pleanála in time for today’s deadline for receipt of objections to Indaver’s plans for a €160m incinerator in Ringaskiddy.

Labour councillor Cathal Rasmussen, chairman of the municipal district, led calls for the objection. He said the Indaver plan was unsuitable when first lodged in the early 2000s and was even more unsuitable today after the Government had spent millions opening the national maritime college and turning a toxic dump on Haulbowline island into an amenity area.