THIRD PARTY SUBMISSIONS COMPLETED AT TUAM ORAL HEARING

Date Published: 23-Jan-2013

The oral hearing on a proposed biogas and anaerobic digestion facility in Tuam has now finished listening to third party submissions. This evening a question and answer session will take place between the appellants and representatives of Galway County Council, which granted permission for the facility at Airglooney Business Park last July. Earlier, John Reynolds, a former worker of RMWS, gave a witness statement about the location of an old asbestos dump. Mr. Reynolds, now an elderly man, claims 620 bags of asbestos were dumped in an excavated hole in the Airglooney Business Park. The Tuam biogas group maintain the dump, used by RMWS over 30 years ago, is on the same site Bernard Hynes wants to build the digester plant. Yesterday the oral hearing heard the site had been strategically identified and if it got the go ahead the facility would be constructed in accordance with all Irish and EU standards. The plant would also have a 40 thousand tonne per anum capacity - enough to power 17 hundred homes in Tuam.