EU Urged To Help With The Clean Up Costs at Haulbowline
Up to 700,000 tonnes of hazardous waste is believed to be buried at the former Irish Steel site
The Government is being urged to appeal to the EU to sanction funding to ensure the former Irish Steel site at Haulbowline is cleaned up.
The plant closed in 2001 and a Government sanctioned clean up operation began in 2007, with plans to re-open it as a public amenity site once all the hazardous material is removed.
However, in the space of 12 months the clean up bill ran to €52 million euro and work was eventually stopped in 2008 after a report found that the site was too contaminated to work in.
Up to 700,000 tonnes of waste is buried at Haulbowline and a former sub contractor who worked on the site estimates that the true cost of cleaning the site will run up to 400 million euro.
Louis O'Regan told the Neil Prendeville Show on Cork's RedFM that the Government needs to put a case to the EU for emergency funding to clean up the site
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