Poolbeg Incinerator
INTRODUCTION
Local Authority Project Case EF2022
Waste to Energy Facility
Pigeon House Road
Poolbeg Peninsula
Dublin 4
Please find here our submissions to the Board on the implications of this proposed development for proper planning and sustainable development in the area concerned and the likely effects on the environment of the proposed development if carried out.
The most serious aspect of this proposal is that it will dump over 620,000 tonnes per annum of greenhouse gas into the atmosphere. The earth cannot tolerate any further increase in the CO2 load.
Therefore the only sustainable option is to bury this waste in landfill after using anaerobic digestion to deal with the putrescible fraction.
The remaining CO2 in the landfill would take some 25 years to release and would thus put back the impact of the remaining CO2 while humankind grapples with the global warming crisis.
We owe it to our children and to ourselves to avoid making the current crisis any worse.
We respectfully ask the Board to refuse permission for this development.