Incinerator will be the largest fag of all

WITH Bord Pleanála hearings ongoing, I would like to make several points about the proposed incinerator.

Indaver tells us that incineration is the best way for Ireland to deal with its waste problem even though, as many people have pointed out, the option of incineration is a disincentive for waste reduction.

The company promises that the trucks carrying hazardous waste estimated at 2,000 daily trips will be run outside rush hours to avoid traffic congestion. This almost guarantees there will be no such thing as non-rush hour, on a road that should be a dual carriageway for the level of traffic it already carries.

Our houses will be worth less which amounts to a kind of theft. Who will want to live with risk of finding out if there really is a safe level of dioxins?

And who talks about a safe level of cigarette smoke these days? Yet Indaver wish to build the largest fag possible a stone's throw from Carrigaline.

If they succeed, people will have to live with it, as I suppose elsewhere they have had to live with Sellafield. At least the Health Minister's smoking ban will have one welcome effect down here. From January 1, whatever Indaver does, we will be guaranteed one place with clean air our pubs.

Nick Folley,

36, Ardcarrig,

Carrigaline,

Co Cork.