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! 2016 Planning Application live again – SIGNIFICANT Volume of new information !

October 7, 2025 by CHASE

Pink area illustrates the areas from which the top of the building will be visible.  The stack is visible from even further. Source: Indaver Additional Information Submitted August 2025. View Photomontage file here The January 2016 planning application by Indaver to build a hazardous and non-hazardous waste incinerator at Ringaskiddy, Co Cork, has been reactivated with … [Read more...]

Bord Pleanala Update Letter Brings Incinerator Back into Focus

June 7, 2024 by CHASE

An update letter issued by An Bord Pleanala, dated 4 June 2024, regarding the reactivated Indaver application has been received by CHASE and Cork Harbour residents who have been battling this application since 2001. This follows the quashing of the 2018 planning grant on March 19, 2021 by High Court Judge David Barniville on the grounds of objective bias by reason of then … [Read more...]

CHASE welcomes Cork Co Council debate on Planning Bill today and PLS Session tomorrow.

February 27, 2023 by CHASE

CHASE welcomes the motion proposed by Cllr Marcia D’Alton at today's Cork County Council meeting (27/02/2023) “That rather than its apparent aims of limiting public participation and access to justice, the new Planning & Development Bill would take the opportunity to address identified concerns with regard to Ireland’s need to meet the requirements of the Aarhus Convention, … [Read more...]

Judge refuses CHASE appeal on judgment to remit Incinerator case back to Bord Pleanala

April 26, 2022 by CHASE

Today, 26 April, 2022 at the High Court Judge David Barniville has refused Cork Harbour Alliance for a Safe Environment leave to appeal to the Court of Appeal against his decision to remit the Indaver Planning Application back to Bord Pleanala for further consideration. In his Judgement of March 19, 2021 Judge Barniville found in favour of CHASE on two grounds, one of which … [Read more...]

Planning quashed and Judge orders application back to October 2017

October 1, 2021 by CHASE

High Court Judge David Barniville today delivered his Orders following his Judgement of March 19, 2021 where he found in favour of CHASE on the grounds of objective bias by reason of then Deputy Chairman, Conall Boland’s prior involvement in the application with work done as a consultant on behalf of Indaver in 2004. Having quashed the May 2018 planning granted to Indaver, … [Read more...]

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TIMELINE GO FUND ME

 

LIVE PLUME ANIMATION

Live animation of today's plume. (With thanks to Plume Plotter)

TIMELINE

20 years of key dates from when the first planning application was lodged with Cork County Council in November 2001.  VIEW TIMELINE.

ABOUT CHASE

CHASE is an alliance of groups campaigning since 2001 to stop the construction of a large 240,000 tonne commercial incinerator in Cork Harbour. The third application from Indaver Ireland was lodged … Read More...

ORAL HEARING 2016 NEWS

  • Serious dioxin figure irregularities exposed as Hearing comes to close
  • No measuring of nanoparticles – not practical, Indaver tell hearing
  • Indaver facility will carry strategic implications for the State – Indaver offer to shut down for Department when needed
  • Indaver to abandon fire fighting after just 2 hours
  • Final Submissions today, questions next week
  • Indaver selective quotation omits that incinerators likely to cause premature deaths
  • 13 year old Cobh student calls for baseline health study for Harbour
  • “There is no risk assessment” – says top Epidemiologist Anthony Staines
  • No safe level of exposure to tiny particulates, says toxico pathologist
  • Royal flush as all TD’s unite to protect the new era for Cork Harbour
  • Ringaskiddy incinerator live plume plot launched
  • Statement from Department of Defence
  • Human Health needs the same standard as protected species: CHASE Opening Statement
  • Indaver experts confirm: High Tide is now inside the site boundary. No separate Health Impact Assessment
  • Packed hearing opens at Carrigaline Court Hotel
  • Full CHASE Submission to An Bord Pleanala

ORAL HEARING DIARY, from Catriona Reid

A day by day account of the oral hearing experience from Catriona Reid, who was 16 years old at the time and has since published an account in book form. READ DIARY

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