Indaver rejects Air Corps fears - says little to no risk to aircraft

Indaver has rejected Air Corps safety fears over the proposed incinerator for Cork Harbour and said existing regulations and flying behaviours would mean little or no risk to aircraft.

The company, which wants to build the €160m facility, was responding to claims made last month by the Irish Air Corps and the Department of Defence, which included fears of an effective no-fly zone due to the proximity of a stack to the naval base at Haulbowline and concerns over how the area would be evacuated in the case of a serious incident at the incinerator.

Fiona Patterson, of consultant engineers Arup, said there were already a number of existing industrial facilities in the Cork Lower Harbour, as well as wind turbines and church spires, and that it was assumed that all of these had an effective 500ft flight ‘buffer’.