EPA review followed normal procedure

I REFER to recent articles concerning the review by the EPA of an integrated pollution control licence for Aughinish Alumina Limited (Irish Examiner, January 22 and 23).

This company applied for a licence review in order to accommodate the construction of a combined heat and power plant at their facility and followed precisely the procedures laid down by statutory regulation.

Those procedures require the EPA to consider the application and any submissions and to issue a proposed determination indicating the intention to grant, grant with conditions or refuse a licence ora revised licence.