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Environmental Impact Statement Dublin Waste to Energy Project Dublin Waste to Energy Project DUBLINDUBLINDUBLINDUBLIN WASTEWASTE WASTEWASTE TOTO TOTO ENERGYENERGY ENERGYENERGY PROJECTPROJECT PROJECTPROJECT For inspection purposes only. Consent of copyright owner required for any other use. ENVIRONMENTALENVIRONMENTALENVIRONMENTALENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTIMPACT IMPACTIMPACT STATEMENTSTATEMENT STATEMENTSTATEMENT www.DUBLINWASTETOENERGY.IE www.DUBLINWASTETOENERGY.IE Volume 2 of 3 Appendices to EIS June 2006 60 mm EPA Export 25-07-2013:19:25:02 Volume 2 of 3 Appendices to EIS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENT DUBLIN WASTE TO ENERGY PROJECT DUBLIN WASTE TO ENERGY PROJECT For inspection purposes only. Consent of copyright owner required for any other use. June 2006 60 mm EPA Export 25-07-2013:19:25:02 Environmental Impact Statement 1 Appendices to chapter 1 Volume 2 of 3 Appendices to EIS 2 Appendices to chapter 2 3 Chapter 3 – N/A 4 Appendices to chapter 4 5 Appendices to chapter 5 6 Appendices to chapter 6 7 Appendices to chapter 7 8 Appendices to chapter 8 9 Appendices to chapter 9 10 Chapter 10 – N/A 11 Appendices to chapter 11 12 Appendices to chapter 12 13 Appendices to chapter 13 14 Appendices to chapter 14 15 Appendices to chapter 15 16 Appendices to chapter 16 17 Appendices to chapter 17 18 Chapter 18 – N/A For inspection purposes only. 19Consent of copyrightChapter owner required 19 for– anyN/A other use. 20 Chapter 20 – N/A 21 Chapter 21 – N/A Elsam Engineering A/S Kraftværksvej 53 DK-7000 Fredericia Phone: +45 79 23 33 33 Fax: + 45 75 56 44 77 www. elsam-eng.com Reg. no. 10650798 EPA Export 25-07-2013:19:25:02 For inspection purposes only. Consent of copyright owner required for any other use. EPA Export 25-07-2013:19:25:02 Chapter Appendix Title 1 Appendix 1.1 References to selected materials from the public domain For inspection purposes only. Consent of copyright owner required for any other use. EPA Export 25-07-2013:19:25:02 For inspection purposes only. Consent of copyright owner required for any other use. EPA Export 25-07-2013:19:25:02 Appendix 1.1 Appendix 1.1 contains references to selected materials from the public domain. 1.2 Report on residues from thermal treatment 1.3 Report on Siting and Environmental Issues 1.4 Report on waste quantities 1.5 Baseline Monitoring Volume 1 Main Report 1.6 Baseline Monitoring Volume 2 Technical Appendices 1.7 Baseline Monitoring Volume 3 Technical Appendices 1.8 Soil and Groundwater Investigation at the Proposed Dublin Waste to Energy site in Ringsend, Dublin 1.10 Waste Management Plan for the Dublin region The materials are made available on www.dublinwastetoenergy.ie For inspection purposes only. Consent of copyright owner required for any other use. EPA Export 25-07-2013:19:25:02 For inspection purposes only. Consent of copyright owner required for any other use. EPA Export 25-07-2013:19:25:02 Chapter Appendix Title 2 Appendix 2.1 Publications Appendix 2.2 CIG Report LEGAL OPINION - In relation to siting of a Appendix 2.3 proposed incinerator /thermal treatment plant at Poolbeg in Dublin Appendix 2.4 Issues, Questions and Concerns of the Community For inspection purposes only. Consent of copyright owner required for any other use. EPA Export 25-07-2013:19:25:02 For inspection purposes only. Consent of copyright owner required for any other use. EPA Export 25-07-2013:19:25:02 Dublin Waste to Energy Project VOLUME 1 / ISSUE 2 / APRIL 2002 Experts divided on solution No fewer than seven well known experts, highly respected nationally and internationally, accepted invitations from the Community Interest Group to speak at the Group’s meetings in February and March. The Group wanted to hear the experts’ opinions and take the opportunity to ask them questions about Dublin City Council’s proposal to site a thermal treatment plant on the Poolbeg peninsula. As often happens, all the experts didn’t agree with each other and Members of the CIG and observers at the meeting didn’t agree with all the experts. The meetings were really lively and so interesting, they went on a lot longer than usual. Here is an overview of what each expert felt: Dr Jim Wilson Hendrik Van der Kamp “...undertake studies “CIG members have in Dublin Bay, in a real opportunity to advance of any get involved in the thermal treatment planning process before plant being built..” the statutory process begins in 2004”. Karin Dubsky For inspection purposes only. Consent of copyright owner required for any other use. “...do we need an Frank McDonald incinerator / thermal “..enforcing waste Recycling treatment plant at all, management legislation if we are at the peak of is the key to making and Rhythms waste generation now?” progress”. Prof Yvonne Scannell ON A POSITIVE NOTE! “...the CIG process Martin Hederman Robinson As part of the commitment to allows you to influence achieving their 60% recycling what will happen and “The EU priority is to target, Dublin City Council has individuals can enforce divert biodegradable embarked on one of its most environmental law”. waste from landfill”. imaginative and exciting recycling initiatives to date. Recycling Dr Conor Skehan Rhythms is a project for Primary Schools that incorporates waste “...have realistic Reduction, Reuse and Recycling expectations, know with the joy of making music. what you can expect More details of all seven continued on back page... from the EIS process”. experts on the next page INSIDE: Detailed chart for the Facts and figures on how we New waste policy will charge timeline of the Waste fair against our European by weight to Energy Project neighbours EPA Export 25-07-2013:19:25:02 Conor Skehan advised the Group not to fight against the proposed plant on emotive grounds. “Issues like emissions Community Interest from the chimney stack will not succeed, since modern thermal treatment plants or incinerators, if properly run, are not dangerous”, he said. “Rather, people should Group hears from experts concentrate on the effects of the proposed plant on the community; traffic, fauna, wintering geese etc.” All the facts will be published in the EIS for the project, Conor Skehan confirmed. By participating in the CIG, local people have the best of both worlds, he concluded. Continued from page one... “You can have your cake and eat it”. People can make sure the best possible application is made and then object to it At the meeting in February Dr. Jim Wilson, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Science, Trinity when the statutory process starts. He went on to say that College and Karin Dubsky, Environmentalist and Director of Coastwatch Ireland both gave CIG members are not doing themselves any harm by short presentations and answered questions from the Group and observers in the audience. participating and are not losing any rights. The only At the meeting in March speakers included Prof Yvonne Scannell from Trinity College; Dr. downside Conor Skehan could see is that people may Conor Skeehan CAAS Environmental Services; Hendrik Van der Kamp from the DIT; Frank lose objectivity through their familiarity with the project. McDonald from the Irish Times and Martin Hedemann Robinson from the EU Commission. “Have realistic expectations”, he concluded. “Know what you can expect from the EIS process”. MORE COMPREHENSIVE METHOD FOR SITING STUDY SUGGESTED Hendrik Van der Kamp, Head of Planning and Development Department, DIT, Bolton Street, Dublin 2 has already written a report for the CIG, looking at the planning process as it relates to the siting study for Poolbeg. Describing the CIG process as being “very innovative and novel”, he told the Group Members that they have a real opportunity to get involved in the planning process before the statutory process begins in 2004. He confirmed the siting process was rational, correct, systematic and in accordance with the normal siting process you might expect. “A very meticulous process and very explicit.” MCOS who did the siting study looked at all the suitably zoned areas and created their short list. Hendrik suggested a more comprehensive approach could also have been tried, which might have required a Material Contravention or a variation of the Development Plan for the City or the three other Dublin Local Authorities. This would have involved MCOS looking at all land in the region, regardless of zoning and picking the best site NEED FOR STUDIES IN ADVANCE told the Members of the Group that the CIG is a process and then looking to have the site rezoned or getting which allows them to influence what will happen and they Dr Jim Wilson, Senior Lecturer Environmental Science, planning permission by material contravention. could ensure advantages for their community in doing so. Trinity College, stressed the importance of undertaking studies She advised the Group to concentrate on the future rather (However, Prof Scannell, who said she was neither for in Dublin Bay, in advance of any thermal treatment plant than on what has or has not happened in the past. “You’re or against the project, interjected to say that a developer being built in the area, to determine the existing contaminant in a policy forum which allows you to influence what directed to look for planning permission on a site that did loads on the Bay and the assimilative capacity. He spoke of the happens from now on,” she said. not have the correct zoning could take legal action based economic, scientific and recreational value of the estuary and For inspection purposes only. Consent of copyright owner required for any other use. on the fact that this is an unreasonable request.) the Bay and said the impact of a modern incinerator on the Prof Scannell said Case Law shows that traffic and property marine environment would be relatively slight.
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