No Incineration - Protest at Ringsend Technical Institute, Sat 26 Nov, 11.30am
The Green Party will be stepping up its anti-incineration campaign in the next few weeks. Speaking today Green Party Chairman and TD for Dublin South East John Gormley said that, “Many residents have been given the impression by Michael McDowell TD that the incinerator would not go ahead. In an interview last summer he said that the incinerator ‘would not be built in its present form’. The Progressive Democrats also promised at the last election that they ‘would ensure no mass burn incineration’. The PDs have now broken that election promise.
“The Fianna Fáil/PD Government have now given the go-ahead to Dublin City Council to enter into a public-private partnership with Elsam Ireland Ltd. to design, build, operate and finance a mass burn incinerator at Poolbeg. Dublin City Council is holding an information day in Ringsend Technical Institute on the subject of “Community Gain”.
“It is clear that the community will not gain from this incinerator, and the Combined Residents Against Incineration (CRAI) are holding a protest at the gates of Ringsend Technical Institute. The Green Party will be present to support this protest, and we urge all residents to come out and show their strong opposition to the incinerator.
“A change in Government policy is our best hope of halting this incinerator, so political pressure must be maintained. The planning process is skewed in favour of incineration, as we have seen in Ringaskiddy, where An Bord Pleanála overturned the recommendation of its own inspector because the building of incinerators is ‘government policy’.
“The fact that the EPA has granted licences to incinerators in Meath and Cork shows that they will more than likely approve a licence for possibly the biggest incinerator in Europe in Ringsend,” concluded Deputy Gormley.
April 20th, 2007 at 11:01 am
Hello, I recently heard that the proposed incinerator for Ringsend has been scrapped? Congratulations if that is true. I am from Glengad, nr. Rossport where Shell hope to build the first onshore refinery in Ireland and a high pressure raw gas pipeline just near our homes. RPS (Rural Planning Services) have recently been appointed by Shell as ‘consultants’ but the criteria is so narrow and it is very much a case of too little, too late. I was wondering what your experience /the campaign’s experience of RPS has been? We were hoping to make links with other communities who have had difficulties with them.
Please feel free to forward my details to people in the community who might be able to help.
Many thanks and good luck in the election! Kate