Thur 18th June - After a five week Oral Hearing, An Bord Pleanala Inspector Oznur Yucel-Finn heard closing submissions from Community Representatives, Statutory Bodies, Indaver and CHASE. Read more.

Wed 17th June - Maritime College Lecturer Says Incinerators Will Negatively Impact College - Department of Environment Recommends Bond to Cover Ecological Restoration In Case of Accident. Read more.

Tue 16th June - Expert Estimates Incinerator Health Burden to Cost Community €150m, debunks Incinerator Efficiency, and Says Question Mark Hangs Over Bottom Ash Classification. Read more.

Mon 15th June - Distances Claimed As Safe In Application Will Be Regarded By Emergency Response Agencies As Well Inside Danger Zone. Read more.

Thur 11th June - Epidemiologist Says EIS Should Be Withdrawn Due to Plagiarism. Ireland Still Not Equipped To Monitor Human Health. Read more.

Wed 10th June - CIT Students Union President Corrects Indaver And Hammers Home Objection. An Taisce claims the site location at Ringaskiddy as “wholly unsuitable”. Read more.

Tue 9th June - Leading Toxico-Pathologist Says No Filtering on Incinerators for Unregulated Deadly Nanoparticles. Prof C Vyvyan challenges incinerator risk study. Read more.

Mon 8th June - Oral Hearing resumes at Cork International Airport Hotel. CHASE Chairperson Says Incinerator Wrong On Every Level. David Stanton, TD, Outlines Government Policy Changes. Read more.

Thurs 14th May - Hydrogeological Expert Says Site On Most Vulnerable Coast In Ireland - Coastal Erosion Will Eventually Undermine Incinerator Structure - Office Of Public Works Confirm Site Vulnerability. Read more.

Wed 13th May - Cork Auctioneer says Incinerator development will effect property prices. Read more.

Tue 12th May - Dutch Paediatrician Warns Of Dioxin Damage At Low Doses - Top UCC Professor Speaks Out for People of Cobh - Midwives Warn of Danger to Breast Fed Babies. Read more.

Mon 11th May - City and Council Engineers concur that there is no need for proposed incinerators at Ringaskiddy. Both Councils are on target to meet landfill diversion targets without recourse to incineration. Read more.

Dept. Circular Confirms Move Away from Incineration
Department of Environment circular to all planning authorities makes it clear that mechanical and biological treatments, not incineration, are to be the cornerstones of national waste policy in the future. Read more.

Does Ireland need to build incinerators?
"The conclusion that Community waste legislation obliges or will oblige Member States to build incinerators is, however, incorrect, and appears to be a misinterpretation of the obligations to properly manage the Irish waste." - EU Commission Q&A. Read more.

Fundraiser to Kick off Oral Hearing Fund
To kick start fundraising for the significant costs involved in the Incinerator Oral Hearing, CHASE are organising a Plant and Cake Sale in Carrigaline GAA Hall on 8th and 9th of May. Read more.

Support the Cause at Incinerator Oral Hearing
Your attendance through-out the Oral Hearing, but particularly on the 27th, would be most welcome and an important input to show how much the community are opposed to the Ringaskiddy incinerators.
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Department warns Bord of Incinerator Risks
Department of Environment has lodged a submission to An Bord Pleanála outlining potential risks to human, plant and animal life from proposed incinerators in Cork Harbour. Read more.

Cork Co. Council Urges Rejection of Incinerators
CORK County Council is to urge An Bord Pleanála to reject Indaver’s plans to build incinerators in Ringaskiddy. Council officials have drafted a negative report on Indaver’s proposals, which will be given to the board on February 16. Read more.

INDAVER ARE BACK
iNDAVER Ireland has lodged an application for TWO new incinerators in Cork Harbour - their original permission for ONE incinerator having recently expired.

See CHASE submission to An Bord Pleanala re planning application. Also see call for submissions.

Dr. Dominic Hogg addresses EPA Conference
Sept. '07 - CHASE welcomes this initiative and hopes it marks the beginning of a process to look seriously at Ireland’s waste management requirements for the next 20 years. Read more

Alternatives to incineration ARE available
April '07 - Report by Dr. Dominic Hogg (for Greenstar) claims that State has failed to consider alternatives to incineration. Read more

Incineration no longer central to Waste Policy
June-Sept '07 - Since becoming Mininster of Environment, John Gormley has indicated changes in government policy that would make incinerators less financially attractive for developers. Read more.

OTHER NEWS
Energy from Waste - the Myths Debunked
Haulbowline Island Toxic waste health issues website and blog
corkharbour.ie -Integrated Information Resource for Cork Harbour