The ESB Power station at Moneypoint has been given until next week to outline ways to rectify breaches of its licence following local concerns in Killimer regarding ash clouds and thick black smoke.
The Environmental Protection Agency has found the West Clare electricity generating station to be non compliant on a number of grounds during a site inspection in July, which followed complaints by local residents.
Residents living close to the Moneypoint alerted the EPA to ash landing on their homes following a dry spell on July 4th and in the inspection report seen by Clare FM, environmental inspectors share local concerns about the time taken to dampen down the ash landfill at the site with water and prevent such dust clouds.
The Environmental Protection Agency was also alerted to thick black clouds coming from a chimney stack at Moneypoint on July 11th and their subsequent investigation found elevated dusted emissions in breach of the ESB’s Polution control licence
The EPA report has raised other concerns about record keeping and dust monitors at the ash landfill in Moneypoint at the ESB has been given until August 19th to outline corrective action to rectify the non-compliance issues.
