Cork environment group seeks court orders for incinerator planning to begin afresh

Cork Harbour Alliance for a Safe Environment (Chase) says permission for incinerator should be quashed, with the effect the entire process would have to start over.

Ringaskiddy, Co Cork, where the €160m incinerator had been planned. File picture: Larry Cummins

A local environmental group wants the High Court to make orders that would require the marathon planning process for a proposed €160m incinerator at Ringaskiddy in Cork harbour to begin afresh.

Following the court’s judgment last March upholding its challenge to An Bord Pleanála’s 2018 permission for the incinerator, Cork Harbour Alliance for a Safe Environment (Chase) says the permission should be simply quashed, with the effect the entire process would have to start over.