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Ringsend Death Risk is 20-80 Times Higher With Poolbeg Incinerator.

September 23, 2009

Added Air Pollution From Poolbeg Incinerator May Increase Deaths By Twenty To Forty to Eighty Times.

Chart: Relative risk of deep vein thrombosis from fine particulate matter.

Reference: http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/full/168/9/920#AUTHINFO
Interpretation

The current air pollution burden in Poolbeg from PM-10 air pollution particles is already at the dangerous level of 50 µg/m3.  A Poolbeg Incinerator will increase air pollution [...]

DDDA Directors, Fools or Crooks? There isn’t anything in between.

September 7, 2009

‘You have to make a choice. Did you not know what was going on? If you didn’t, you must ask yourself, are you a competent director? And if you did know, you were complicit in recklessness and fraud. So which is it? Because there isn’t anything in between’.

- Comment on Ireland’s cronies by Niall Fitzgerald, [...]

Even More Covanta Pollution Violations – Poolbeg Waste To Toxins Incinerator Operator, Covanta

August 24, 2009

Happy to gamble having your life cut by two months to two years?
Do you trust Dublin City Council?Would you trust a friend of Dublin City Council?
DCC’s friend Covanta looks like it could be an awesome operator of the proposed Poolbeg Incinerator, a waste-to-toxins factory which will most likely increase premature deaths across Dublin.
Billionaire mogul Zell [...]

DDDA Governance and ARUP. More Docklands Developers Autocracy Rot.?

August 1, 2009

What will N.Brennan do about Arup’s cross-directorship with the Developers Autocracy?
A cosmetic resignation from DDDA or Ulster Bank does not suffice to disable the perception of an old-boy network nor the damage to international perceptions.

N. O’Sullivan is a director of Arup.
N. O’Sullivan is a director of the DDDA.
Arup claims DDDA’s [...]

The Back Story on Zoe Developments

July 25, 2009

Click here for a blog with interesting views on Zoe Developments.
Be sure to check the facts independently, but consider avoiding taxpayer funded spin from Seanie’s Dublin Developers Autocracy (DDDA) and Dublin Council (DCC) of course.

Poolbeg Incinerator "Rogue Employer"

July 24, 2009

The USA’s National Labor Relations Board this week issued a comprehensive complaint charging Covanta Energy Corp. and all of its U.S. subsidiaries with violating federal labor law.
http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/07/01/covanta-complaint-shows-need-for-employee-free-choice-act/
AFL-CIO Local 369 President Gary Sullivan:
The board’s action confirms our first-hand experience that Covanta is a rogue employer with no respect for the rights of its employees. [...]

Poolbeg Incinerator "Rogue Employer"

July 24, 2009

The USA’s National Labor Relations Board this week issued a comprehensive complaint charging Covanta Energy Corp. and all of its U.S. subsidiaries with violating federal labor law.
http://blog.aflcio.org/2009/07/01/covanta-complaint-shows-need-for-employee-free-choice-act/
AFL-CIO Local 369 President Gary Sullivan:
The board’s action confirms our first-hand experience that Covanta is a rogue employer with no respect for the rights of its employees. [...]

Incinerators Nanoparticles are safe. Trust Us.

June 19, 2009

Tiny particles from incinerators will reduce your life by up to two years.
Nobody understands the science. That’s why we have Fianna Fail.
You can trust your clever politicians to protect you by directing their political appointees, dressed up as scientists, at EPA, Bord Pleanala, and elsewhere._________________http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0610/1224248531633.html
Expert challenges risk study for incinerator
LOUISE ROSEINGRAVE
Wed, Jun 10, 2009
TOXICOLOGICAL [...]

Incinerators Nanoparticles are safe. Trust Us.

June 19, 2009

Tiny particles from incinerators will reduce your life by up to two years.
Nobody understands the science. That’s why we have Fianna Fail.
You can trust your clever politicians to protect you by directing their political appointees, dressed up as scientists, at EPA, Bord Pleanala, and elsewhere._________________http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0610/1224248531633.html
Expert challenges risk study for incinerator
LOUISE ROSEINGRAVE
Wed, Jun 10, 2009
TOXICOLOGICAL [...]

NAMA To Rescue Uneconomic Incinerator?

May 21, 2009

Perhap’s Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) can pitch in some of our €90,000,000,000 to help out Covanta, along with the €450 Million NAMA will burn to rescue the IGB speculators down the road in Poolbeg.
Green-FF states the incinerator is now uneconomic – as promised by John The Traitor Gormley. So no doubt [...]