PROPOSALS to take hundreds of millions of litres a water a day from Lough Derg and pump them to water-starved Dublin can only proceed on the basis that no environmental damage is caused to the Lower Shannon, Minister of State Fergus O’Dowd has said.
But Deputy O’Dowd told the Dail that the water abstraction plan – which Dublin City Council is expected to lodge with An Bord Pleanala – was not a “Clare against Dublin” issue but an attempt at a solution for the whole country.
His remarks followed an emotional Dail appeal from the Labour TD for Clare Michael McNamara for “guarantees” from government that water levels on Lough Derg would not be affected by the €500m proposals……
Limerick Leader 30/11/2013 Read the article ‘McNamara fears Lough Derg could end up ‘like Aral Sea’
