Waste to energy is a contentious issue in Ireland, with strong opposition to Covanta's Poolbeg plant from residents and politicians alike. In Denmark however, the story is quite different reports the Irish Independent. Residents in the Copenhagen suburb of Glostrop have never heard of John Gormley.
They are blissfully unaware of the Environment Minister's dogged opposition to an incinerator planned for his Ringsend backyard in Dublin.
Their backyard contains the Vestforbraending plant, the biggest of Denmark's 29 waste-to-energy plants.
There are many similarities between Vestforbraending and the controversial municipal incinerator planned for Poolbeg in the heart of Ringsend.
Both are located in an industrial area in a suburb of a city, surrounded by housing estates. A big general hospital is 3km down the road. Both serve broadly similar populations, and are designed to convert 600,000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste into district heating and energy every year.
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Covanta took a bunch of Irish journalists on a trip to Copenhagen in October 2010. Sure whats a jolly between friends. DDDA and Anglo-Irish Bank did the same. And to optimise the hacks valuable time MKC provided the journos with awesome Covanta press releases on the benefits of incineration.
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Details of what the hacks did on the trip have not been published as those releases would embarrass their mammies. These esteemed hacks and people of science returned to Ireland to immediately regurgitated the Covanta spin.
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