Incineration has a key role to play

THE current furore over the Poolbeg incinerator in Dublin is an echo of a similar outcry in the Cork Harbour area over the past few years in relation to the proposed Ringaskiddy unit.

In each case, concerned local interest has been bypassed by an incipient energy crisis which will not permit the luxury of entertaining the qualms of these protest groups.

Incinerators have two principal and very valuable qualities: