A judge has called for a taskforce to be set up to prevent an impending environmental disaster in the Midlands. Over 4m gallons of slurry are on the verge of leaking from a largely unauthorised piggery in Co Longford into major lakes, Longford District Court heard yesterday. “This is a toxic site and I want to hear proposals,” said Judge Seamus Hughes. Donal Connaughton, aged 56, a pig farmer, has admitted three charges of causing or permitting deleterious matter (slurry) to fall into the water courses…
Irish Examiner, 22/10/14. Read the full article ‘Four million gallons of slurry at piggery is a disaster waiting to happen‘.
