Seanad debates

Wednesday, 5 February 2003

Protection of the Environment Bill 2003: Second Stage (Resumed).

 

I live close to the Kildare County Council landfill site and I know that it is flaring off gases into the atmosphere 24 hours a day. Hopefully, some of that will be recovered by way of waste to energy, which is something on which we could make progress. Ground water pollution emanates from a time when liners were not put into the bottom of landfill sites. The gases are flared off. They infiltrated the strata underneath to the point where people had to be evacuated from their houses at Christmas and put into rented accommodation. If the wind is in the right direction you can smell the gases three or four miles away.

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