For a further one and a half years before this she and a local environmental group were actively involved in attempting to overturn a decision by the EPA to grant a licence to the pharmaceutical company Roche to operate a hazardous waste incinerator in Co. Clare. Objections are lodged by local citizens plus Green Party and Greenpeace on planning and environmental grounds.
Local authorities leave way clear by granting planning permission for construction of incinerator .
Only environmental grounds are now left open for objections. The proposed toxic waste incinerator in Clarecastle is the subject of the first ever Irish EPA oral hearing in Ennis, Co Clare. Roche employ one independent witness to speak on their behalf, Prof. Rappe, an elderly Norwegian organic chemist. All give expert testimony for the case against incineration and why this particular licence is so flawed. Testimony is also presented by local farmers, fishing families, ornithologists, naturalists, as to the severe adverse effects since 1976 created by the negligent practices of the previous company Syntex.