Claims that Cork could be ‘waste capital of world’ if incinerator given go ahead

Cork could become the waste processing capital of the world if a proposed incinerator for the harbour area was to become a reality, according to academics from University College Cork.

The claim was made at the oral hearing into the proposed incinerator for Cork Harbour in Ringaskiddy, which also heard concerns over a meeting between applicant Indaver Ireland and the HSE, and fears a well-developed bunker fire at the proposed facility could burn for more than a week.

Gordon Dalton of the UCC-affiliated Marine Renewable Energy Ireland Centre claimed the Indaver facility, if allowed, would produce 1/40th of Ireland’s industrial Co2 emissions.