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CORK COUNCIL REFUSAL OF HAULBOWLINE DOCUMENTS APPEALED

FIE has appealed to the Information Commissioner Cork County Councils' refusal to release documents relating to Haulbowline Island. There are no grounds for refusing data recording emission to the environment in the Access to Information on the Environment Regulations.

FIE also provided the Information Commissioner with one Report that the Council refused to release which has now been released to the group by the EPA.
The ‘Interim Report on the environmental status of Haulbowline Island' of May 2008 says that the authors felt ‘obliged' to report the necessity of ‘emergency treatment immediately'.

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Read the Appeal and ‘Interim Report on the environmental status of Haulbowline Island'

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Friends of the Irish Environment - CORK COUNCIL REFUSAL OF HAULBOWLINE DOCUMENTS APPEALED
Posted By Tony Lowes on 11/09/2008 ( Reads : 950 ) | Comments (0) | Appeals
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Kenmare Supertown Observation
25th September 2006 An Bord Pleanála, 64 Marlborough St., Dublin 1 by hand Re: Kerry County Council planning Reg. Ref 06/2077, 06/2078, 06/2079 A chairde, We wish to make the following submission or observation opposing each of the three applications above. We enclose the €50 fee with each copy of this submission for a total of €150.00 to object to a single inappropriate development that has been split into these three applications.

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Friends of the Irish Environment - Kenmare Supertown Observation
Posted By the editors on 24/09/2006 ( Reads : 1757 ) | Comments (0) | Appeals
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Corrib Ferry Appeal
The Secretary, An Bord Pleanala, Marlborough Street, Dublin 1 17 November, 2005 Observation on a Planning Appeal. ABP Ref. No. 214700 Planning Authority: Galway County Council Ref. No. 04/5402 Date of Consent Notification: 26 September 2005 Applicant: J. J. Mehan, Shannon Ferry Group Ltd. Re: installation of a cable link car ferry, capacity 24 cars with associated on-board and on-shore facilities including a 0.2 hectare carpark, a 114 sq.m. service building containing an office and a store/workshop area, two new access roadways and associated link spans, relocation of a group water supply intake pipe, pump sump and pump house and for the redevelopment of small boat berthing and service facilities and access channels.

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Friends of the Irish Environment - Corrib Ferry Appeal
Posted By the editors on 26/11/2005 ( Reads : 2132 ) | Comments (0) | Appeals
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26 NOVEMBER: Corrib Ferry Appeal
FIE supports the chorus of protests over the proposed ferry crossing of the Corrib, a scheme that threatens a remote and unspoiled rural area. Residents have found a 1996 Report on an earlier proposal which not only outlines the adverse impacts but predicts that a crossing of the Corrib at this point would serve no strategic value. 'The Galway Development Plan calls Lough Corrib 'possibly the single most significant natural asset in the County'. Given this proposals' flawed premise and wide-spread potential environmental disturbance, the national gain arising from this development is so small and the environmental lose so great that we urge your Board to refuse consent in the clearest terms.' Read our Observation on the resident's Appeals to the Planning Board: 'The Galway Development Plan calls Lough Corrib 'possibly the single most significant natural asset in the County'. Given this proposals' flawed premise and wide-spread potential environmental disturbance, the national gain arising from this development is so small and the environmental lose so great that we urge your Board to refuse consent in the clearest terms.'

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Friends of the Irish Environment - 26 NOVEMBER: Corrib Ferry Appeal
Posted By the editors on 26/11/2005 ( Reads : 1631 ) | Comments (0) | Appeals