EPA to hold hearing on Poolbeg incinerator

Updated: 18:48, Thursday, 28 February 2008

The Environmental Protection Agency has announced it will be holding an oral hearing into the granting of a waste disposal licence to the operators of the planned Poolbeg Incinerator.

1 of 1Poolbeg - Oral hearing on incinerator next month
Poolbeg - Oral hearing on incinerator next month

An Bord Pleanála have given planning permission but the controversial incinerator needs a waste licence to open.

The EPA hearing will be held 14 April in the Gresham Hotel to hear a total of 14 objections.

The incinerator also needs to get a licence from the energy regulator to sell electricity generated from the incineration process.

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