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Mon 02 Feb 2010ESRI to re-examine waste management report
THE ECONOMIC and Social Research Institute (ESRI) is re-examining its report endorsing Dublin City Council’s controversial plan for a municipal waste incinerator on the Poolbeg peninsula after admitting that it contains a number of errors.
But Prof Richard Tol, senior environmental specialist with the institute, denied that the report, An Economic Approach to Municipal Waste Management Policy in Ireland, was being “withdrawn” – as claimed in a Sunday newspaper yesterday. When the report was published last week, Prof Tol said the ESRI had been made aware of a number of errors in it.
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