CORK HARBOUR COMMUNITIES MOBILISE AGAINST INCINERATOR PROPOSAL

Communities around Cork Harbour are holding local meetings to organise against the reactivated Indaver proposal.  The first meeting was held in Crosshaven Community Hall on Tuesday October 21st and attended by concerned local residents and County and City Councillors.

Meetings will be held Carrigaline, Cobh and Ringaskiddy this week and next week as follows:

THURS OCTOBER 30th. Carrigaline Community Centre, 8.15pm

WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 5th. Cobh (Great Island) Community Centre. 7.30pm

THURSDAY NOVEMBER 6th.  Ringaskiddy Community Centre. 7.30pm

Members of CHASE (Cork Harbour Alliance for a Safe Environment), including Linda Fitzpatrick, Denis Cronin, Mary O’Leary, Sue Walsh, Gertie O’Driscoll and Marcia Dalton, review the latest plans during an urgent public meeting in Crosshaven Community Centre as they continue their campaign against the proposed Indaver Ireland incinerator in Ringaskiddy, Cork Harbour. Photo Joleen Cronin.

CHASE Chairperson Mary O'Leary said:  ""Communities around the harbour share a clear vision for this area—one focused on education, research and clean jobs. This vision aligns the specific objective for the site in the Cork County Development Plan, and with Failte Ireland’s plans for a world-class Cork Harbour experience, as part of the integrated  Cork City, Harbour and East Cork Development Plan announced in 2024.

A large 240,000-tonne commercial waste incinerator on the edge of a stony beach in the heart of the harbour has no place in that plan. Three inspectors have already found the site fundamentally unsuitable, and communities are now asking: what can we do?”

The re-activated proposal is a continuation of the original 2016 application, permission for which was subsequently quashed in High Court but remitted to An Bord Pleanala.

The closing date for receipt of submissions by An Coimisiun Pleanala is 17 November at 5.30pm.