The plant at Mell, Drogheda which involves large-scale dipping tanks, will process 36,000 tonnes of steel per annum
A contemplative order of nuns has raised concerns that a new steel processing plant planned for the outskirts of Drogheda will detrimentally affect the order’s essential ‘prayful atmosphere’.
However, the plan is facing local opposition with 60 submissions lodged with Louth County Council on the proposal. The monastery’s 8.5 acre site lies to the east of the planned steel plant site and in the submission, Sr Breda has told the Council “we are concerned that this plant would seriously and detrimentally affect our way of life and the present prayful atmosphere, which is essential to us”.
Sr Breda has told the Council that “we are concerned that the relative proximity of this plant will result in noise and air pollution in our area, especially since the prevailing winds tend to be from the west”. Ian Lumley of An Taisce has told the Council that the planned heavy industrial processing facility represents a significant departure from the business park/incubator units provided for in a 2009 planning permission.
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