Ringaskiddy incinerator is the wrong project, in the wrong place, for the wrong future

I would encourage anyone interested in the rejection of the plan for an incinerator in Cork Harbour to make a submission to An Coimisiún Pleanála before the deadline of Monday, November 17, writes Labour Party senator from Cork, Laura Harmon

(Left to right) Members of the Cork Harbour Alliance for a Safe Environment (CHASE) Linda Fitzpatrick, Denis Cronin, Mary O’Leary, Sue Walsh, Gertie O’Driscoll and Marcia Dalton review the latest plans at an urgent public meeting in Crosshaven Community Centre. Their energy has highlighted the many reasons Ringaskiddy cannot become home to this incinerator. Photo: Joleen Cronin

For 24 years now, Cork people have opposed proposals for an incinerator at Ringaskiddy. For a third time, local people are mobilising against it. 

The Cork Harbour Alliance for a Safe Environment (CHASE) have been campaigning against this incinerator since 2001 and have been successful in stopping it so far. People from Carrigaline, Monkstown, Passage, Cobh, Ringaskiddy, Crosshaven, East Cork and Cork City came together to form CHASE and it is their energy that has highlighted the myriad of reasons Ringaskiddy cannot become home to this incinerator.