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// EXPLOSIVES FACTORY HEARING ADJOURNED FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW

FIE welcomes the adjournment of the Assent Hearing to allow for a Judicial Review of the refusal to make fundamental information known about the proposed explosives factory at Kildysert, County Clare.

Friends of the Irish Environment


Press release 30 May, 2001


EXPLOSIVES FACTORY HEARING ADJOURNED FOR JUDICIAL REVIEW


Nice treaty commitment challenged


FIE welcomes the adjournment of the Assent Hearing to allow for a Judicial Review of the refusal to make fundamental information known about the proposed explosives factory at Kildysert, County Clare.


The public must be allowed to know what is being built and exactly what will take place. The Appendix containing this information was omitted from the EIS submitted to An Bord Pleanala and it has now been refused at a public hearing.


Agenda 21, The Arrhus Convention and the Seveso Directives all seek to reinforce the public's right to know what their authorities are permitting.


The refusal to release critical information today will result in a long and expensive legal battle simply to establish a right to know that is accepted in other modern societies.


FIE questions how the Government can support the Nice Treat so vehemenently when the most basic of European rights and Directives are being blatantly ignored when it suits them.




Attribution: Spokesman