Harbour campaigner seeks green light from voters

One of the women behind the phenomenal 10-year local campaign to stop a 100,000-tonne incinerator being built at Cork Harbour is hoping to win a seat in tomorrow’s county council elections.

Passage West/Monkstown town councillor, environmental engineer, and mother of five Marcia D’Alton was approached to run for Cork County Council by one of the big political parties but felt she would be “better able to express herself” as an independent.

Cllr D’Alton is a member of Cork Harbour Environmental Protection Association (CHEPA) who worked with CHASE (Cork Harbour Area for a Safer Environment) and a number of other local groups to fight Indaver’s planned industrial and household waste incinerator.