Morgan halts `test' incinerator
Driving down a local laneway on Saturday morning at
Rampark, near Jenkinstown, County Louth, where tragically all the
livestock have been culled, Sinn Féin Councillor Arthur
Morgan saw belching black smoke, investigated, and found it to be
a `portable incinerator'.
Arthur, a prominent member of
the campaign to stop Minister Noel Dempsey foisting incinerators
on the North Eastern Region, was horrified. He blocked the
laneway with his car to stop further incineration and immediately
instituted enquiries.
It emerged that Louth County Council had allowed the use of
the incinerator ``as a test'', though a distraught local resident
said although they had been promised notification of any burning,
they had received no such advice about use. Local farmers
reported that the incinerator, about the size of a 40-foot
container, with an open top, had been belching black smoke for a
large part of Friday evening.
Following Arthur Morgan's protest to the council, further
incineration was stopped and on Tuesday, 3 April, Morgan wrote to
the County Secretary to demand that this `equipment' be removed.
``It is terrible to think that amidst all that is going on,
with people losing their animals in the cull, that the council
would have taken advantage of this situation to pull such a
stroke over the people,'' said Morgan.
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