Roche’s incinerator policy challenged

I WAS flabbergasted at Environment Minister Dick Roche’s assertion that Indaver’s incinerators are passing through “one of the most open and rigorous physical planning and environmental licensing regimes in the world” (January 5).

Mr Roche obviously came nowhere near the licence or planning application oral hearings for the Ringaskiddy proposals.

The sound basis on which the whole process rests must be site selection. The WHO has issued guidelines for the safe siting of incinerators. The Ringaskiddy site fails on the criteria set down including, for example, weather conditions that allow the pollutants to linger, flooding and proximity to the new maritime college.