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Friday 23 October 2020
The planning permission will see that close to 900 social and affordable homes will be built on the site.
The fault occured at the Ringsend wastewater treatment plant.
A motion from the Green Party seeks to secure the Pigeon House Precinct for cultural and green uses.
A public hearing on the plan is due this month.
Dublin Waste to Energy has two months to decide how to plead.
The EPA also last week found a “moderate” infestation of flies at the site.
Locals say they have never seen anything like this number of flies before; one person described it as ‘biblical’.
While 11 staff were hospitalised, Covanta said that no members of the public were in danger from the incident.
The activist group ‘Parents Against the Incinerator’ are holding a meeting this evening. Here’s a bit of what will be discussed.
Last week, eleven workers were taken to hospital following an ‘unscheduled’ release of lime.
Three investigations are ongoing after eleven workers at the plant were taken to hospital last week.
Yesterday, 11 people were treated at hospital after an ‘uncontrolled release’ in the newly-opened plant.
Locals say they are concerned after yesterday’s lime leak.
The facility has started burning waste – two decades after it was first proposed.
The deal was made between the city council, Department of Housing and the developers.
The facility will fire up this weekend.
After years of holdups, the controversial plant is set to start burning waste this month.
A video has emerged of a Danish teenager climbing one of the landmark towers.
The ESB aren’t happy with him.
It’s understood the strike had taken place as a result of three workers being let go from their jobs by text message last Friday.
Planning minister Simon Coveney has designated the huge site a strategic development zone.
A lot of you are glad to see that they’re staying.
The ESB is keeping them, even though they don’t do anything.
“I dragged my bedroom mirror down looking for an interesting image… my right arm is now two inches longer than my left!”
The Public Accounts Committee was told it can’t question Irish Water boss John Tierney
The plant is being built by US energy company Covanta.
The council CEO is understood to have described it as an “oversight” on his part not to inform the councillors sooner.
One councillor said it would have been “good manners and good practice” to contact them.
The majority of Dublin City councillors and Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown councillors voted against, while Fingal councillors voted in favour of the plan.
The €500 million incinerator will process over 550,000 tonnes of waste each year.
Wonder no longer.
It’s set to hit 27 degrees tomorrow…. Almost puts you in mind of the great heatwave of 2013, doesn’t it? Ah, the memories.
The chimneys have been in place since the 1970s and are visible over much of Dublin city.
But TD Kevin Humphreys still thinks the plans should be scrapped, saying today it is a waste of taxpayers’ money.
It’s the middle of the week now and here’s everything you need to know before 9am.
The male in his 30s was discovered yesterday.
Let it settle.
The City Manager, however, says no decision has been made on the project.
The Green Party says questions from investors show the “folly” of the plan.
But the taxpayer could lose €96 million.
US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump and former vice president Joe Biden took part in another debate last night, the final head-to-head before voting on 3 November.
The previous debate was fractious and almost unwatchable as the pair shouted over each other, but last night was more measured by comparison.
Trump denied being racist, saying no US president since Abraham Lincoln has “done what I’ve done for the black community”. Biden then said Trump “pours fuel on every single racist fire” and claimed he “has a dog whistle about as big as a fog horn”.
You can catch up on the main points here.
Did you stay up to watch the debate, or catch highlights this morning?
If you did, we want to know: Who won last night’s US election debate?
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