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THE Ballyduff Beg Liaison Com- mittee are to receive advanced notice of all reports relating to the Central Waste Management Facility in Inagh, it was decided at last night’s meeting of Clare County Council.
This is following the circulation of an independent report on odour
levels at Ballyduff Beg, which was released by Clare County Council to the elected members of the council and the media but not to the liaison Loy nebeeblatoton
“We have had an ongoing problem with odour in the area and most of the community liaison meetings are taken up with discussions on the mat- ter. I was disappointed that a copy of
the report was not there at the last meeting, we are supposed to be mov- ing on this in a spirit of partnership,’ said Clir Joe Arkins (FG).
‘The press had it but the local com- munity did not, that is the issue. If this had been made available to the people of the committee I would have been able to be better informed. Anything that we have that is perti-
nent to the operation of the landfill should be circulated to the laison committee.”
Independent Lisdoonvarna council- lor Martin Lafferty called into ques- tion the same consultant being used by Clare County Council and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to conduct separate environ- mental audits at Ballyduff Beg.
“The same company is coming back after doing our report are now doing another report for the EPA. I’m not saying anything about this com- pany but consultants can often give a report that reflects favorably on the opinions of the people who are pay- INOTSMn alos pe RMN A CoMCT- BOE
‘Tribute has to be paid to the ac- tion committee in Inagh. At the be- ginning they were laughed at about it but a lot of their fears have proved to be true. The committee has to com- plimented on their vigilance.”
Responding to the motion, Sean Ward of Clare County Council said that odour was the one significant issue that still remained with Bal- lyduff Beg. He also revealed that of- ficials from the local authority had recently visited dumps in Laois and Offaly to study how odour was dealt ALAN Neo KoR
It was also confirmed that plans were in place to use the gas produced by the landfill as a potential source of fuel in the future.