Good morning.

Chairperson; ladies and gentlemen.

My fady recentlv n~sved to Cork. I have spent 20 years in the Merchant Nav$ and I[ NW live and work in Ring@dddy*

In some ways talcking here today could be perceived by sane to be a futile exercise when it conies to trying to stop this proposed devehpment, ~a~~~larly noting the well publkised Btis between the EPA and Ikdaves. However I am a great believer in the voice of the people and the power of &lkctive &ternGnation, Over 250,000 people wudd live within 25 rides of this Toxic Waste incinerator.

me dimgers ofl%h%%wation. I believe that the concept of toxic waste incineratisn is a primitive and dangerous technology.

Scientific evidence shows that incinerators ermit a cocktail of toxic chenkals including dioxins with that the undisputed seriouhealth issues that these cause. The GA%A Global All ia&e for Incinerator Altem&ves has

a repoti ” R%LY~~ Ikcine~~tion: A L$b!g

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TechnslQg~*” 7.Y s document lains wily i.ncineratQrs are an unsustainable and obsolete method for dealing with waste .

The report concludes that incineration is a dying techmlqgy. As a waste treatment t&c SlQgy, it is unreliable and produces econdary waste stream far more dangerous &an the migi Surely the EPA coot dispute this.

Incineration as an energy productim method is inefficient and wasteful of resources, As an~econsmic develspment tool, it is a Mastrophe, which drains &mney out of local mmmnities and creates scarce ad often dangerous jobs. The accident and explosims last year resulting in death pmve this.

Ringaskiddv has already has its fair share of clmemical in&Wry and all the accompanying problems that brings . . . ..including hmrible smells almost daily being pImped out by some chemical indWries in the area.

This tmic waste incinerator signals a point of no return for Ringaskiddy, Cork ad indeed Ireland.

I am. a likk sceptical of self-generated claims. In this case the chemicals discharged into the air and the projected emission levels. Forexample a car rnanufactmer publishes emission levels of&heir pqh.ds. These. le-a;els are tested under strict labsratmy conditions with a howjm

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hdrocarbon. Surely it is a difkrent matter when the niedium that is being bmt is an m own quantity. can it be possible to predict the lev Qf egss%Q;tzs any degree sf accuracy whn we don”t have a detailed analysis of what would be burned at this incines&or? k These chemicals indude, but are ndt limited to Hvd Fhide, Nitrogen Oxides, Mercury, Arsenic: and lie

on% forget ah that the United Nations Environment Program (WEiPj repmts that incinerators accsmt for 69% of dioxin enlissions worldwide.

The toxic waste incinerator is designed for continkrous operation burning a projected ZOO, 000 hmm5 of both hazardous and non hazardous waste each year if the project was to go ahead. Public opposition has kilfed many proposed and existing incinerators worldwide, More than 300 waste incinerator proposals in the United States have been defeated in the last 85 years because of public opposition.

hterestingl~ a toxic waste incinerator, which wo-Lalld be Canada”s largest toxic: waste incineratqr, was dealt a real bhv recently when the Ontario Envircmnnent Department rejected much of the company’s data concqning human health and environmental impacts.

dBd&wer’sl EIS. Let me quote. ‘The Envirmmental. Impact Statement submitted with the application by Indaver is inadequate and fails to comply with the mandatosv re~~~e~e~ts as to its .J

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A Me bit M&g in this case I think.

This state of the art bEi xnillion euro college will be teaching over 700 students fi-onm all over Ireland and beyond per annlgm an employing over 70 staff. This ultra modern facility will n-&force Ireland’s position as a centre of exceflence in xnaritirme training. It will have the harbour QI~ its northem border a the huge site with the toxic waste irabuxat.or right across road on its southern boundary.

coqxter data and modeIs, actor ng to the Indaver’s

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TlJis means tl-iat this third level college will be most .vulnerable sf any building in Irela~~d. How cm this be allmved? The W.H. 0. criteria talk about a site of a haz~dous waste incinerator having 90 more than 4 5 dwellings within 1501a. (para5.1p 7Respometo 3rdPur@Appealstocan Bard PleaPzala)

ifl.lthou& 1 ha& yet to confinn what the W.EI.0. definiticm of what a ‘dwell&g’ is, I would bet that a large college of 700+ people witiltm 20 meters of its entrance.. . . way, way exceeds this criteria.

I ml~ hope that the college being so close to the toxic waste incinerator will be seen as a major reason that it -will have its draft Bicence withdrawn. How can a tmcic producing plant be at a third level college’s tisnt entrance?

The new Maritime College will be promoted worldwide. And so unfortunately would the decisim, if it is allowed to go ahead, ofhilding a tmic waste incinerator right on its door step..: . . . . having visited the proposed site l[‘m sure the chair person must have seen this for himself.

For every tonne of incinerated toxic waste there will be 3 0% by weight of waste that has tried to be burnt remaining

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