We need to kick up a stink about raw sea sewage
Blanchardstown to Clonshaugh was necessary to support the Ringsend plant as more homes are developed.
The 12km pipelines will pump treated wastewater out past Baldoyle and 1km north-east of Ireland’s Eye.
Pumping fresh water into saline water is going to cause untold harm as it damages the natural biosphere.
Fishermen and those in the water tourism business are horrified by this, as are the local swimmers. We love our sea and it’s our right to protect it for our children and their children.
If the Government would just listen to the experts from Solution, Not Pollution and other such environmental platforms, we could be avoiding the problems of the past.
We know from talking to experts and microbiologists that you can’t upset a finely-balanced ecosystem.
As Bloom’s Day came and went last week, Joyce’s grand-niece Sabrina Joyce Kemper is keeping her grand-uncle’s love of Dublin Bay alive by trying to preserve it through litigation.
On a week where we celebrate one of our finest, we miss our seas – our natural resource is being polluted and treated with such disrespect.
If lockdown has taught us anything at all, we need to protect our resources – the ocean is free for all to enjoy but it shouldn’t be a free for all to pollute.
There are different ways of treating sewage and in places like Singapore and Malaysia alternatives have worked really well using wetland treatment centres.
Dublin Bay is the only protected UNESCO biosphere in the entire world that includes parts of a capital – and now Irish Water and their cronies are planning to destroy it.
Such a rarity that we have this site and yet we’re prepared to put that at risk? Our seas deserve to be protected.