The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is prosecuting Clare County Council over allowing water untreated for the bug cryptosporidium into the Ennis water system over a five-month period last year.
In a court summons lodged with the council, the EPA is accusing the council of breaching an EPA directive which required that the council cease the practice of allowing water to bypass the council’s new temporary treatment plant for cryptosporidium from
May 1st to October 21st last year. The case is due to be heard at Ennis District Court on June 25th next.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is prosecuting Clare County Council over allowing water untreated for the bug cryptosporidium into the Ennis water system over a five-month period last year.
In a court summons lodged with the council, the EPA is accusing the council of breaching an EPA directive which required that the council cease the practice of allowing water to bypass the council’s new temporary treatment plant for cryptosporidium from
May 1st to October 21st last year. The case is due to be heard at Ennis District Court on June 25th next.
An interim examiner was recently appointed to an oil distribution company involved in the construction of one of Ireland's largest deepwater oil terminals on the banks of the Shannon Estuary.
Blackshore Holdings, which traded as Sweeney Oil, is a wholesale and retail oil distributor in Connaught. The firm is owned by Galway businessman and hotelier John Sweeney, one of the shareholders in the Shelbourne Hotel in Dublin.
Three of the largest fuel distributors in the South, Mid-West and West last year joined ranks to construct the Foynes terminal, which was launched by Minister for Transport, Noel Dempsey TD. The AFSC was unveiled as a joint venture involving Inver Energy, East Cork Oil and Blackshore Holdings (Sweeney Oil). The Atlantic Fuels Supply Company oil terminal will have capacity to supply 15pc of Ireland's fuel requirements when it is completed in August next year.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is prosecuting Clare County Council over allowing water untreated for the bug cryptosporidium into the Ennis water system over a five-month period last year.
