Latest Ringaskiddy walk for clean air

cork | environment | news report Sunday July 25, 2004 23:57 by John Baker - Cork Grassroots Regrowth666 at hotmail dot com

Action against unsustainable waste management

Update on the walks being held at Ringaskiddy against incineration and for zero waste. Also a brief rant about the superdump the government wants to build at Bottlehill in North Cork

Sunday 25th July saw a continuation of a series of walks being held at Ringaskiddy to counter the threat of Indaver's proposed incinerator and to generate alternatives to the same. A slightly smaller group met at the carpark at Haulbowline. ( Go straight through Ringaskiddy past the turn off for the ferries and it's directly ahead of you about a 1/2 mile on). We then walked up to the Martello tower on top of the hill, marking the path with coloured ribbons. Blackberries are out already up there, also potatoes planted earlier in the year by a local guerilla gardener. Watch out for them if you walk that way. What else could this sunny east facing site with a view all across the harbour be used for? A positive vision for it held by enough people will displace the hostile unimaginative one that the government are currently trying to force on us.
You are encouraged to visit the site and walk the path, get to know it, see what we will lose if we let this development go ahead, look at the damage that the pharmachem industry has already done to the harbour area and the communities that live there, but focus on the beauty that still exists there. Cork harbour is still a powerful place, lets fight for it.

Apologies to anyone who turned up but couldn't find the walk. We will make it more obvious as time goes on. There will be walks of varying intensity every Sunday but go down any time. Just follow the coloured ribbons!

On a related note, there is one angry community up at Bottlehill in North Cork currently facing a superdump on the hill up above them. The EPA recently gave it the go-ahead after a long struggle. This campaign lacks the wider support that the anti-incinerator one has but it is every bit as important. It won't only be them who are angry if this goes ahead, the proposed site has 4 different river systems running from it. If you wanted to pollute as much water as you could you couldn't pick a better site. The site area is huge, you are looking at 1000s of acres of forestry with little population. Is that why they picked it? It is also very beautiful. What can we do for this one? I don't know, but the future is unwritten. Try visiting the area, talk to the people up there, let them know they're not alone.
Thanks for reading, please pass this information on
John