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In addition to the unknown liability from the secret contract, taxpayers can expect to pay an additional €25 million to €75 million in CO2 penalties, each year.

The additional financial liability for Tobacco and Asbestos style lawsuits caused by deadly particle pollution is also unknown. Estimates by British Society for Ecological Medicine using World Health Organisation Air Quality Guidelines indicate the Dublin Bay Incinerator at Poolbeg would cost at least 100,000 man-years of life over 15 years. Each life is valued at about $8 million by the US government’s EPA, so this liability could exceed $53 Billion per year.

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The notion that Dublin which currently produces twice the quantity of waste per capita compared to say London or New York will remain doing this is a fallacy beyond comprehension. When the reality is understood and the implications of costs that are borne by the tax payer [you and me] the public will adjust its habits: I have done so already and now in my household [2 adults and 3 children, ages 5, 14 and 17] we are down to one black bag of waste a week and a total weight of 800kg per year, this is well below the headline figures posted in the Waste Management Report!

More importantly though is the fact that the project cannot be afforded by the Tax Payers. Just remind yourselves the following facts that have been well published. This programme has a Budget cost of €250+million and that was in 2005 before newer legislation was added – that will add a further €150million to it. Thus it means that for each Dublin area resident we will be paying €500 just to have it built. Then the running costs and financing and subsidies will add a further €160 a year to this. That means from 2014 onwards each resident will be paying for this project at the rate of €250 per year Man Woman Child and Pensioner! That means €1500 per tax payer each year for the next 40 years! Affordable phooey!

But we do have an opportunity to address this moving to a newer technology such as suggested by Daniel Hayes at the University of Limerick and the biorefinery option also suggested by Dominic Hogg at Eunomia with Ethanol. Even Senator O’Toole seems to have a better grasp at this than most. That as stated elsewhere neednot cost the the payer anything. So Government and the Green Party must change policy or reap the benefits.