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14/05/2012
Bottlehill Dump Cost Taxpayers €6,000 A Day To Sit Unused
The Irish Independent has reported today that taxpayers are paying almost €6,000 a day in loan repayments and interest for a €47m dump that has never been used.
The paper has learned that Cork County Council is likely to keep the huge landfill at Bottlehill mothballed for years due to muddled national waste disposal policies and a collapse in landfill rates, and that it may never be put into operation.
Vehemently opposed by locals when it was proposed almost 15 years ago the dump facilities cost €47m to develop.
Although finished almost five years ago, the facility has never been opened commercially.
Former Mayor of Cork, Labour councillor John Mulvihill, said the council had fallen victim to the "the Fr Ted-style planning" of successive governments and was now paying the financial penalty.
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The paper has learned that Cork County Council is likely to keep the huge landfill at Bottlehill mothballed for years due to muddled national waste disposal policies and a collapse in landfill rates, and that it may never be put into operation.
Vehemently opposed by locals when it was proposed almost 15 years ago the dump facilities cost €47m to develop.
Although finished almost five years ago, the facility has never been opened commercially.
Former Mayor of Cork, Labour councillor John Mulvihill, said the council had fallen victim to the "the Fr Ted-style planning" of successive governments and was now paying the financial penalty.
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