Tánaiste Simon Coveney said the Government has been following “with concern” reports that the UK proposes to use the Mourne mountains as a storage area for nuclear waste. He will discuss the issue with Northern Secretary Karen Bradley when he meets her later this week. Green Party leader Eamon Ryan said he understood that the Scottish Assembly ruled out such “deep geological storage of nuclear waste” there but that the Northern Ireland Assembly had agreed. Raising the issue in the Dáil, Mr Ryan said it was not clear “what the parties in government in Northern Ireland have agreed or why they did so”. But he asked “what if anything is the Government doing about this”.
Irish Times 13th Feb 2019 read more »
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