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Legal challenge launched over Aughinish Alumina waste dump

Environmental Trust Ireland has lodged proceedings against An Bord Pleanála’s decision to allow the metal refinery to expand ‘red mud’ storage

Aughinish Alumina's waste dump of bauxite residue, Environmental Trust Ireland said the existing dump was already ‘an environmental disaster waiting to happen’. Picture: Press 22

A Limerick-based environmental activist group has lodged a High Court challenge over the decision to award planning permission to Aughinish Alumina for the expansion of its “red mud” waste dump.

Environmental Trust Ireland has lodged judicial review proceedings against the decision by An Bord Pleanála to allow Aughinish Alumina to expand its bauxite residue disposal area (BRDA), which stores millions of tons of so called “red mud”. This is the bauxite residue left over from ...