Saturday. Poolbeg Lighthouse, Dublin.
(Thanks Stephen Devine)
Dawn at Sandymount Strand, Dublin yesterday (before the rain).
(Thanks Stephanie Mc Ardle)
Tag Archives: Poolbeg
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The incinerator at Poolbeg this afternoon; Green Party leader Eamon Ryan
This afternoon.
Further to the release of ‘lime’ at the newly opened Poolbeg incinerator which saw eleven workers at the plant hospitalised…
The (Environmental Protection Agency) EPA said it was told the lime cloud was contained in the building and that the material was not released to the atmosphere.
“The EPA is satisfied that there was no danger to the public or local community from this release,” it said.
The agency also said no rubbish was being fed into the incinerator following the incident and no burning has taken place since.
Meanwhile….
“We’ve had a concern about this incinerator since the beginning. It should not go into operation until it’s found out what is happening here…We have to make sure it’s safe,” Eamon Ryan said.
Dublin City Councillor for the Social Democrats Cian O’Callaghan said the incident was not acceptable, adding: “This is not meant to happen at all.”
Latest: EPA believes ‘no danger to the public’ from release of lime at Poolbeg (Breakingnews)
Earlier: Don’t Say You Weren’t Warned
Dan Boyle on ‘The Green Anti Christ’
Rollingnews
All quiet outside Poolbeg Incinerator after incident which saw 11 people hospitalised pic.twitter.com/FuFDgvpWSj
— Sean Defoe (@SeanDefoe) June 8, 2017
Sarah Burns, in The Irish Times, reports:
Eleven people were taken to hospital after a small amount of lime was accidentally released inside the flue gas treatment area at the Poolbeg Incinerator in Dublin on Wednesday night.
“Late on Wednesday night a small amount of lime was inadvertently released inside the flue gas treatment area during the commissioning and testing of the Dublin Waste to Energy plant at Ringsend,” said a spokesman for Dublin Waste to Energy Ltd.
“At the time there were a number of workers in an adjacent area. As a precaution, eleven workers were sent to St Vincent’s Hospital nearby for medical evaluation. Two were detained overnight.”
Eleven hospitalised after ‘uncontrolled release’ at Poolbeg (The Irish Times)
Poolbeg from Sandymount.
Louise writes:
For the last two nights driving home through Sandymount I’ve seen this view (above) of the new incinerator in action…
Good times.
Previously: Waste Of Space
Poolbeg from Sandymount Strand, Dublin 4
Existential strolling man gazes at Coventa’s controversial incinerator, designed in the brutalist manner, which had its first delivery of waste yesterday and is expected to start BURNING at the weekend.
A trial run last month brought unwelcome gusts of a warm, plastic fragrance across the strand.
Good times.
Previously: Smells Like Warm Plastic
Save Poolbeg (the bit on the right)
Rollingnews
The big red Lighthouse at Poolbeg, Dublin yesterday.
(Thanks Stephanie McArdle)
M6 looking west, just before Tyrrelspass
(Thanks John Gallen)
Poolbeg peninsula looking towards DunLaoghaire this morning.
(Thanks Luke Brennan)
This afternoon.
Poolbeg, Dublin 4
Corlos The Complainer writes:
Looks like the new incinerator [developed by US waste firm Covanta] is operational. Plumes of smoke rising from it all day.
Also there’s been a sickly smell of warm plastic wafting in off the sea since the morning. Coincidence?
Anyone?
Previously: Covanta And Dublin City Council: what’s that funny smell?
The Shelly Banks, Poolbeg, Dublin, yesterday.
(Thanks Cazamaline)