Indaver decision due by Friday

A planning decision on a proposal to build a €160m incinerator in Cork Harbour is due by Friday, almost two years behind schedule.

Opponents of the Indaver Ireland project are so incensed at the delay that they have lodged a complaint against Ireland to the European Parliament Committee on Petitions.

Cork Harbour Alliance for a Safe Environment (CHASE) lodged the complaint on May 20 on foot of “the failure of Irish planning, and particularly the Strategic Infrastructure process, to guarantee “early” and “effective” public participation and access to environmental justice, in accordance with the Aarhus Convention and European Union environmental law”.