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McMahon to oppose incinerator
proposals
13.01.09
THE Green Party in
Inishowen has vowed to oppose any plans to build an
incinerator in the North West.
Buncrana-based Green candidate Sheenagh McMahon made
her pledge amid speculation that the North West
Regional Waste Manage Group views an incinerator as
a preferred option for waste disposal.
“The Inishowen community has always been clear about
its opposition to an incinerator and I, for one,
will rigorously oppose any plans to build one in our
area.
"I do not want an incinerator in my community and I
do not expect any other community to live with that
burden.
"Incineration is an out-of-date technology - newer
and cleaner technologies exist which should be
considered such as anaerobic digestion," she said. |
Ms. McMahon claimed
that incineration plants needed huge amounts of
waste to operate.
"To build an incinerator here will threaten all the
work achieved already in recycling. Inishowen will
have to import waste from other areas in order to
make a local incineration plant viable and we do not
have the infrastructure for that. Incineration also
poses a risk to our agriculture and food
production," she added.
Meanwhile, she said her colleague Environment
Minister and Green |
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Party leader John
Gormley was currently carrying out a fundamental
review of waste management policy. He was doing so
in line with commitments in the Programme for
Government, to ensure a shift away from
incineration, towards recycling and reducing waste,
she said. |
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