{"id":654,"date":"2007-03-23T17:38:28","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T17:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/2007\/fairshare-for-portrane\/"},"modified":"2007-03-23T17:38:28","modified_gmt":"2007-03-23T17:38:28","slug":"fairshare-for-portrane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2007\/fairshare-for-portrane\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairshare for Portrane"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><font face=\"PrimaSans BT,Verdana,sans-serif\"><span xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\" xmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" xmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\" xmlns:st1=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\"><\/span><span bgcolor=\"white\" link=\"blue\" vlink=\"purple\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><font face=\"PrimaSans BT,Verdana,sans-serif\"><span xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\" xmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" xmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\" xmlns:st1=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\"><\/span><span bgcolor=\"white\" link=\"blue\" vlink=\"purple\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">A \u20ac140m regional treatment plant has been recommended for Portrane on North Dublin\u2019s coastline to cater for the sewage treatment needs of South and <u1 u2:st=\"on\"><st1 w:st=\"on\">West Dublin<\/st1><\/u1>.<\/span><\/font><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><o><\/o><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"PrimaSans BT,Verdana,sans-serif\"><\/font><font face=\"PrimaSans BT,Verdana,sans-serif\"><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The sewage plant is proposed to have the capacity to treat the wastewater for 850,000 people. Part of the proposal involves a 15-mile (22km) \u201corbital sewer?? to carry untreated sewage to the Portrane plant from as far away as Lucan.<\/span><\/font><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><o><\/o><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"PrimaSans BT,Verdana,sans-serif\"><\/font><font face=\"PrimaSans BT,Verdana,sans-serif\"><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">The proposals are part of a \u20ac2.6bn plan which was recommended in a report called the \u201cGreater Dublin Strategic Drainage Study??, sponsored by Fingal County Council, Dublin City Council, Dun Laoighare Rathdown County Council, South Dublin CC, Wicklow CC, Kildare CC and Meath CC.<\/span><\/font><font face=\"Arial\" size=\"2\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial\"><o><\/o><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"PrimaSans BT,Verdana,sans-serif\"><\/font><font face=\"PrimaSans BT,Verdana,sans-serif\"><\/font><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">A campaign group, called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairshare.ie\">Fairshare<\/a>, has been set up to oppose the monster treatment plan. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairshare.ie\">http:\/\/www.fairshare.ie<\/a><\/span><\/font><font face=\"PrimaSans BT,Verdana,sans-serif\"><span xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\" xmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" xmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\" xmlns:st1=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\"><\/span><span bgcolor=\"white\" link=\"blue\" vlink=\"purple\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><font face=\"PrimaSans BT,Verdana,sans-serif\"><span xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\" xmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" xmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\" xmlns:st1=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\"><\/span><span bgcolor=\"white\" link=\"blue\" vlink=\"purple\" lang=\"EN-GB\"><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\"><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/span><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A \u20ac140m regional treatment plant has been recommended for Portrane on North Dublin\u2019s coastline to cater for the sewage treatment needs of South and West Dublin. The sewage plant is proposed to have the capacity to treat the wastewater for 850,000 people. Part of the proposal involves a 15-mile (22km) \u201corbital sewer?? to carry untreated&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2007\/fairshare-for-portrane\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fairshare for Portrane<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enviro","category-politics","category-video","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}