Air Corps requires plume risk guarantee from proposed Cork incinerator

Irish Air Corps concerns about the impact on helicopter safety of a proposed incinerator in Co Cork can be ameliorated if the company behind the application can guarantee it will contain any risk from the plume to within 150m of the stack.

In a letter to An Bord Pleanála, where the application is currently under consideration, the Department of Defence said that “the Air Corps requests that Indaver [the applicant] explicitly state the distance beyond which a helicopter, in all conditions, may fly without risk from the plume”.

“Should Indaver confirm that this risk will be contained within 150m of the stack, then it will not impact on Air Corps operations,” the letter says.