Six of the eight companies accounted for more than half of all complaints in 2017.
Eight Irish companies have been listed on the National Priority Site list for enforcement for failing to meet the necessary environmental standards by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
Six of the eight sites listed below – four of which are from the agri-food sector – account for more than half of all complaints made to the EPA in 2017, complaints that were made about odour, noise or dust.
- Arrow Group, Kildare
- East Galway Residual Landfill Site, Galway
- Green Pasture Meat Processors Limited, Longford
- Irish Cement Limited (Limerick), Limerick
- Nutricia Infant Nutrition Limited, Cork
- Rosderra Irish Meats Group (Edenderry), Offaly
- Shell E&P Ireland Limited, Mayo
- T & J Standish (Roscrea) Limited, Offaly
The companies listed above, identified as priority sites for Quarter 4 of 2017, will face enforcement action.
The National Priority Sites for Enforcement system was launched by the EPA in July 2017 to drive further environmental compliance at industrial and waste facilities.
Licensed facilities are identified as National Priority Sites for Enforcement using a system developed by the EPA. Points are allocated to each site based on compliance data such as complaints, incidents and non-compliances over the previous six months. Sites which exceed a certain threshold become a National Priority Site and are targeted by the EPA for further enforcement action.
The EPA will update the National Priority Sites list on a quarterly basis.
The four sites listed below, meanwhile, have come off the previous National Priority Sites List for Enforcement following improvements in compliance.
- Arrabawn Co-operative Society Limited, Tipperary
- Ashgrove Recycling, Cork
- Carbery Food Ingredients Limited, Cork
- Dairygold Co-Operative Society Limited (Mallow), Cork
For more information, check out the EPA website.
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