Tierney Daughter's Job at RPS

DADDY HAS MOVED TO A NEW PARISH.

Joanne Tierney is the daughter of Mr John Tierney, the gentleman famous for curiously burning €110 Million of public money on the city dump in Dublin Bay at 'Poolbeg'.

Is it curious at all at all that the fine public servant's  daughter is now on the payroll of RPS-water in Australia?  And is it curious Mr Tierney is giving jobs at Irish-water to former RPS Poolbeg Incinerator consultants - especially after being in charge when €22 million in illegal payments were made to RPS?

Meanwhile daddy is now working with Kilkenny buddy Hogan to install water-tax meters in every house in Ireland, a better gig than selling sand to the Arabs.

Obviously Daddy's honourable services to the people of Galway and Dublin are good enough for government work.

Its important Covanta investors know this.
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Mr Tierney has a doctorate in governance or advanced business management or something like that from somewhere.  Apparently the EU in Brussels has a view that under Tierney's watch Dublin City Council illegally paid in excess of €22 Million to PJ Rudden's RPS in a dodgy and undocumented illegal contract.  No records.  No spreadsheets. No accounts.  No minutes of meetings. Curious.   

Judge McKechnie made a judgement about DCC management cooking RPS 'expert' reports to misinform the people of Ireland.  

Proposed Poolbeg Incinerator - TV Report

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDNZOSYl970

DCC has wasted €100 Million so far.   If they go ahead they will kill 100's of recycling jobs and export another €900 million to New Jersey and cause the premature ill-health and the premature deaths of an unknown number of people.


The RTE report omits possible lies told to the public by the promoters of the proposed incinerator.  (McKechnie Ruling - DCC "massage" of RPS reports).


Alternate link:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0131/blog-31january2012_primetime.html


The 31 January 2012 segment from RTE Prime Time on the Poolbeg Incinerator fiasco starts just before minute 17.  It runs for about ten minutes.



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Mr Pyjamas and Bambi did a no-show for Prime Time.  Perhaps Bambi is hiding out in Brighton with De Heer Professor Tol Pot and PJ is scheming how to further exploit the good name of Eejits Ireland on Clyde Road.

RPS & Burning €81 Million on Poolbeg Incinerator

RPS is a mighty fine English business working behind the scenes with apparatchiks at Dublin City Council and with Covanta, a serial lawbreaker from New Jersey.  

Imagine if the Casalesi clan  was running Dublin's waste business and Europe's largest incinerator.  In January 2012 mafia tactics were used by DCC.  Dublin's residents were made an offer they could not refuse.  After 140 years of public service accept a no-prior-notice offer within 10 days from a private offshore waste contractor selected secretly by unknown DCC insiders and pay a large up-front bundle of cash to the offshore contractor operating from a tax haven or your services will be terminated.   Breaking basic privacy and data protection considerations the immune DCC cowboys also gave private data on all of Dublin's residents to the contractor. They even authorised the offshore contractor to collect debts.  Gotta pud food on the table ...  


RPS is dining out and playing golf with the €26 million it's honestly earned so far from the distinguished engineering services it provides for DCC's time servers.  DCC has committed or wasted a further €74 million, not including the cost of lucrative pensions and public service retirement payoffs.


In December 2009 Judge McKechnie ruled that DCC used RPS reports to "massage" the truth.   That sounds like polite language to say that DCC lied to misinform the people.  It's curiously convenient that RPS reports may be used as a facade for credibility by De Drumcondra Mafia, FG's K Club and FF's Galway Tent.   At the time RPS was paid €25,000 per month to create spin for DCC.


At the public hearings on the Poolbeg Incinerator at least one "consultant" in the RPS syndicate used statistics cunningly painted with crayons to mislead the public.   While RPS was being paid €25,000 per month for spin.


RPS also legally acquired a unit of DCC 'communications' employees and made them RPS 'PR consultants'.  Recruiting public service employees is a standard trick used by Covanta (legally).   




In 2010 the Institution Of Engineers in Ireland, hiply branded as Engineers Ireland, issued a report promoting incineration.  The EI report curiously omitted to mention the pertinent fact that the author on incineration was a former incineration industry employee - whilst shouting out other CV data.   


EI's report also curiously omitted that a VP at Engineers Ireland in 2010 and EI president in 2011 is the head of the RPS-Ireland unit contracted by DCC to spin for the Poolbeg Incinerator.  RPS's team has been paid at least €26 million of taxpayers money.  So far.  


If you ask Engineers Ireland about possible conflicts of interest they refer you to their ethics policy without doing anything about answering your question.  The EI president for 2010 said he couldn't comment on the McKechnie judgement as there was a court case pending.  The financial regulator also has no comment.  




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PS: Buddies Covanta routed money to Fine Gael before the 2011 general election (google: Hogan, French, K Club).


http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0131/blog-31january2012_primetime.html

http://www.politics.ie/news/pac-chairman-calls-greater-powers-inquiry-investigation-over-81m-poolbeg-cost-date-66.html






RTE reports the following (follow link for full report):

The project may be stalled but its costs are still mounting. Dublin City council has spent €81m on the project so far, it got about €4.5m back from Covanta the proposed incinerator operator but most of the spending is from the public purse. Slightly over half the money has been spent on buying land, according to council figures supplied this month to Cllr Paddy McCartan, but €29m has gone on consultants. 

A consortium of consultants led by RPS was paid a healthy €26m in fees so far. RPS say that they don’t get all of that money and that depending on the year, between 40% and 66% of the money they got for the project is passed on to sub-consultants. Under the Freedom of Information Act, however, Prime Time obtained invoices paid by Dublin City Council to RPS dating from mid 2004 to Sept 2011. Some of the spending seems quite extraordinary. In the 16 months after the site work stopped, the council paid RPS over €2.6m, even though the project appeared to be at a standstill. 

For several years the council was paying the PR wing of consultants RPS over €50,000 every two months as a “Communications Retainer.” That retainer continued to April 2011.

Even more extraordinary is that council figures show the PR spend on the project at €4.3m including a dedicated information office. And this €4.3m is separate from the communications fees paid to RPS.

Poolbeg Incinerator could cost Ireland up to $2.5 Billion per year.

The proposed Poolbeg Incinerator will cause up to 300 premature deaths per year, a view not contested by Ireland's 2007 Environment Minister.   The view was framed as a question and was put to the Environment Minister in Dáil Éireann by current Education Minister Ruairi Quinn.  


Doing the sums, based on current US EPA numbers for the cost of premature deaths, the proposed Poolbeg Incinerator could cost Ireland up to $2.5 Billion per year.

The United States EPA claims that by 2014 a new law titled "CSAPR" will prevent 13,000-34,000 pollution-related premature deaths, and yield between $120 billion and $280 billion in health and environmental benefits annually.   [See full article in The Economist, Oct 15th 2011 | ATLANTA |New rules on power-plant emissions invite a host of lawsuits].

This law is opposed by "power companies", a title misused by incineration companies such as Covanta.  Covanta is most likely giving lots of cash to politicians to buy off this US law.  In Ireland its reported that Covanta has bought influence with Environment Minister Hogan at The K Club golf course, FG's Galway Tent.  In the Irish context 'cross-state' becomes 'cross-border' or 'transatlantic'.  Even before the Poolbeg waste-to-toxins factory is built, illegal pollution from repeated-lawbreaker Covanta already crosses the Atlantic from Covanta incinerators to pollute Irish air.

INCINERATOR DIOXINS ALREADY POLLUTE IRELAND

About 340,000 people die prematurely each year in Europe from air pollution.  EU laws are less ambitious on particle pollution than in capitalist America.  In 2007 FF's Environment Minister did not contest the question expressed in The Dail by TD Quinn that the proposed incinerator could cause up to 300 premature deaths per year in Dublin.   All such costs will be transferred to Ireland's taxpayers and their farcical hospitals.  This observation was presented to the Bord Pleanala Hearing in 2007, and totally ignored, a Financial Regulator Best Available Trick.  One director on Bord Pleanala's executive board is an "ex" employee of DCC's English spin-consultant RPS, the outfit which apparently hijacked an Engineers Ireland 'report' to spin for incineration; in other reports it was ruled that RPS and DCC "massaged" information on incineration to mislead the public (Judge McKechnie, 2009).  Bord Pleanala's current chairman has been transferred from Ireland's crony-rich EPA, a facade of non-regulation also laced with "ex" incineration industry stalwarts.

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http://www.economist.com/node/21532309

THERE is nothing like a broad new federal regulation to make Jarndyce and Jarndyce seem like a simple dispute over a traffic ticket. As of October 11th no fewer than 36 separate entities—states, cities, power companies, trade associations—had petitioned the United States Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit to review or stop the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from implementing the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR). Eight entities have intervened on the EPA’s behalf. More could jump into the fray in the next month.

The rule at the centre of this scrum requires power plants in 28 states—everything from Texas eastwards, except Delaware and the six New England states, and including Oklahoma, Nebraska and Kansas—to reduce emissions that contribute to ozone and fine-particle pollution in other states. (Other states’ emissions do not have enough of an effect on air-quality in neighbouring states to trigger a reduction.) The rule is scheduled to take effect from January 1st 2012. By 2014 these states’ sulphur-dioxide emissions must be 27% of what they were in 2005, while nitrogen-oxide levels must fall to 46% of their 2005 levels.

CSAPR replaces the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), issued in March 2005, and also the subject of lengthy litigation before the same court, which found in it “more than several fatal flaws”. The court left CAIR’s provisions in place, but ordered the EPA to come up with a better rule: hence CSAPR. The EPA claims that by 2014 CSAPR will prevent 13,000-34,000 pollution-related premature deaths, and yield between $120 billion and $280 billion in health and environmental benefits annually. Those benefits, the EPA insists, outweigh the costs of implementation; though there may be rate changes for consumers, these should be “well within the range of normal electricity price fluctuations”.

Covanta Buying Incinerator Politicians in Maryland

Buying Influence in Maryland.
Covanta and buddy-company Energy Answers International are legally giving money to Maryland Governor O'Malley in return for permitting a new incinerator.  Just $46,000 is cheap for a $300 million project and they don't even need to pay-to-play the US Ambassador.  For more read The Washington Examiner.


Buying Influence in Ireland.
One of Fine Gael's Galway Tents is pitched at the K Club where its reported FG legally obtained cash from Covanta prior to the 2011 general election.  Don't ask local TDs where the cash comes from for holidays in San Francisco billed as Silicon Valley learning expeditions for the good of The Irish People.  


In 2012 it's expected FG's Hogan will re-write Irish laws to create "certainty" for Covanta's bankers to finance about €300 million for the proposed Poolbeg Incinerator.  In the meantime Covanta is increasing the cash it's returning to Covanta shareholders ($300 million).  Anglo Irish Bank is an example of the certainty created by Ireland's inbred crony cartel.  


Incineration Promoters Use EPA, Bord Pleanala & Engineers Ireland Brand.
Similar to the fired Financial Regulator the directors in these organisations seem to treat their professional employees or members as compliant jackasses.


Labelled as 'consulting', Energy Answers International has paid the former director of EPA-Ireland to spin for it in Ireland.  One trick is to covertly hijack  the Engineers Ireland brand in a report designed by a PR company to create cover for dodgy politicians.  Unsurprisingly  "ex" incinerator industry employees have been stuffed onto the decision making boards of both EPA-Ireland and An Bord Pleanála where professionally qualified inspectors get over-ruled.  


Without any repercussions at least one DCC technocrat has told lies to mislead the public on the Poolbeg Incinerator - google McKechnie's judgement concerning "massaged" reports from DCC/RPS.  The President of Engineers Ireland is from RPS and promotes incineration for DCC.  The prior President of Engineers Ireland claimed not to see an ethics conflict in the covert exploitation by the incineration industry of Engineers Ireland.  The esteemed EI President now plans a media campaign to build the Engineers Ireland brand.  The official marcom project brief will exclude any massaged thoughts about indirectly benefiting the covert promotion of incineration or RPS or DCC.

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Extract from Washington Examiner

Another major contributor to Maryland officials has been Energy Answers International, a New York company that is planning to build a controversial [incinerator] waste-burning power plant in Baltimore.

In June 2009, the company applied for a license to build the plant. Over the next two years, Energy Answers, Chief Executive Officer Patrick Mahoney and owner Covanta Energy gave roughly $30,000to the [state Governor] O'Malley administration and Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake.

O'Malley in October 2010 praised the planned plant as a national model for green energy. Ten days later, the companies heaped $16,000 on him and Lt. Gov. Anthony Brown through campaign donations.

-By: Hayley Peterson | 09/29/2011 
Examiner Staff Writer

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/2011/09/energy-companies-contribute-thousands-maryland-democrats?page=0%2C0%2C0%2C1#ixzz1ZjS7qT9O

Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/2011/09/energy-companies-contribute-thousands-maryland-democrats?page=0%2C0%2C0%2C1#ixzz1ZjCtiY2G


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Watch The Wire to get "a taste" for the integrity of Maryland and Baltimore politicians and The Sopranos for a look at New Jersey waste-industry entrepreneurs.

Poolbeg Incinerator & Berties Cronies

MKC seems to link Bertie and his Beamish Men to the Poolbeg Incinerator:

• Bertie, 
• RTE, 
• Irish Times, 
• Irish Independent, 
• Irish Press (defunct; FF rag; cheated Irish-American investors), 
• Covanta, 
• Bank of Ireland, 
• Dublin City Council (via MKC Client Covanta), 
• Engineers Ireland, 
• RPS (via MKC Client Engineers Ireland, and DCC. Add Bord Pleanala), 
• Fine Gael, 
• PDs (Harney)
• US Ambassador via MKC Client US Chamber of Commerce.

The following images based on Village magazine may need to printed or viewed on a large screen.  Read Village Magazine for a backgrounder.

 


Sources: Village Magazine, October 2010.  Politics.ie

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The Poolbeg Incinerator cabal seems to be of the same culture of inbred cronyism which bankrupted Ireland through Anglo-Irish Bank and the DDDA.    Abramovich from the Aluminum Wars of 100 murders wants his money back.  The Drumcondra Mafia is trembling.  Is that why fearless FF is pulling the Anglo-Irish-Bank con on the Irish people to the tune of €90,000 per family?

Alleged Illegalities in Poolbeg Incinerator Process: Bribery & Incineration Issue for Poolbeg Incinerator.

An opinion on the Poolbeg Incinerator from Bulgaria.  Sure what do they know about hiding corruption says Bertie & Celia. Cheeky ex-commies, after all I did for them and the brickie jobs. 

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Copied with minor text edits from Blog Comment Posted to Indymedia.

Bribery and the Incineration Issue for Dublin

by Karel Yurian - Wed May 26, 2010 21:21

source: https://www.indymedia.ie/article/78759?&condense_comments=false#comment269054

Having seen the issues of bribery and embedded corruption seen as normal across many of the countries in the New European Union entrants and also seen the same things practiced elsewhere across the wider World I wonder about the rumours running rife that RPS will be given up to €26 million in extra fees-  above their already over-sized €21 million, going on €32 million fees being paid for by Dublin Corporation.  

 

The European Union has hierto not yet fully deliberated on the vexed procurement issues surrounding how Elsam and another became Dong and Covanta and that during the time of the current discussions (over the last three years) the Dublin Poolbeg Incineration project has leapt from €267 million yo €410 million (according to the American Press.) And that they are now seeking a currency price adjustment to be implemented to the project to guarantee that the Government of Ireland does not default on the tenets of the payment profile - the costs to treat the waste per year!

Surely Ladies and Gentlemen in Ireland you have not missed the issue for even from here in Bulgaria it stares you in the face.

• The Dublin Poolbeg Incinerator Project was tendered for correctly but awarded ILLEGALLY TO AN ORGANISATION THAT WAS NOT PARTY TO THE ORIGINAL BID.
  
  
  
  
• It is ILLEGAL to use the term PUT OR PAY for a Service like this when it is in effect a SUBSIDY.
  
  
  
  
• It is also ILLEGAL for this PUT OR PAY principal then to be used as a means to EXACT FURTHER SUBSIDIES IN LOWER THAN EXPECTED OUTPUTS IN ELECTRICITY AND HEAT which inevitably follows.
  
  
  
• It is ILLEGAL for the CONSULTING ENGINEERS RPS (FORMERLEY MC O'SULLIVANs) to have been awarded a contract to determine the PRE_ORDAINED OUT_COME AND NEED FOR THE DUBLIN INCINERATION PROJECT.
  
  
  
  
• It has always been ILLEGAL PRACTICE UNDER THE Services DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION TO CONTINUE WITH THE APPOINTMENT OF CONSULTING ENGINEERS ON A PROJECT WHEN THEIR FEES HAVE INCREASED (BE IT FROM ADDITIONAL WORK, OR FROM NEW WORKs) WHICH SO MATERIALLY INCREASE THE VALUE (OF THE ORIGINAL SERVICE CONTRACT) BY OVER 30%!
  DUBLIN CORPORATION IS IN ITS OFFICERS CULPABLE OF THIS MISMANAGEMENT AND NOW THE EU NEEDS TO STEP IN AND SERVE NOTICE OF REDRESS.
  
  
  
  
• In these items therefore the EU should also take note that the VARIOUS ACTS OF COERCIAN CURRENTLY BEING ADOPTED BY DUBLIN CORPORATION TO FORCE THE WASTE INDUSTRY TO SUPPLY ITS FREELY COLLECTED AND CONTRACTED WASTE OBLOGATIONS TO THE INCINERATION PLANT (SHOULD IT EVER GET BUILT) IS A MOVE AGAINST THE CONSTITUION OF THE EUROPEAN UNION IDENTIFIER ON TRADE AND IS A RESTICTIVE PRACTICE BANNED IN LAW UNDER BOTH EU AND IRISH STAUTES.
  
  
  
  

In the previous items I have just scanned it seems that the premise for taking the Waste to Ringsend-Poolbeg is flawed under the EIS EIA rules of the EU in that there has been no comparable study done to suggest that the waste could not have been transferred to the existing Land Fill Site by the Ring Road. If that had been done the concerns over the option for shipping waste through the most densely populated area of Dublin would have been eliminated in its entirety.

Likewise and I return to the issue of the day, Incineration does not do what it is supposed to do. Professor Michael H Hayes (at the University of Limerick) and Dr Daniel H Hayes (of the Carbolea Institute at the same University of Limerick) have both shown that the best option Environmentally is the conversion of the Biomass in the Waste to the Biofuel for Transport Ethanol - after separation of the Recyclables and the Inert materials (these last two are also not included within the incineration option.) This position has also been verified by Dr Dominic Hogg of Eunomia and now it seems many others including many in Denmark Sweden Norway and Finland as well as in the UK China Korea Vietnam and India - all of whom are adopting this system.

WHY? Simply put it solves the Environmental issues as well as being as much as 60% cheaper in Capital costs and in operations and maintenance costs.

Again earlier in these items we read that the Waste to Ethanol process can be effected at a treatment cost which can be set lower than Land Fill Costs -- I think I read €30 per tonne was proposed for Dublin. Further I also read that there would be no treatment cost after 6 years from the start. Further it does not need the illegal subsidies of a Put or Pay base structure to survive!

Why then does the Government dilly dally with this? There is no contest.

Engineers Ireland Leveraged by Incineration Industry?

April 1, 2010.

Engineers Ireland (EI) has in the past published a "report" strongly supporting incineration.

• Is it ethical that the publication does not appear to shout out that RPS's Mr Rudden is a VP of Engineers Ireland?  

• Is it ethical that the publication does not highlight that RPS & others have been paid €25 million by an autocratic Dublin City Council to promote incineration at Poolbeg?

• Is it ethical that the Engineers Ireland publication does not appear to shout out that report authors are from the incineration industry?

Has Engineers Ireland now been placed alongside other Irish Institutions which some people are wary of?  Has the ordinary membership of EI been unduly leveraged by the waste-to-toxins industry?  Did anyone ask the members opinions before the report was published using their good names?  Is EI relevant outside Ireland, and outside the small world of Irish government contracts often managed from the Galway Tent?

From Engineers Ireland's website:

A national voice     http://www.iei.ie/membership/benefits-of-membership/national-voice/

We aim to be the trusted and influential voice of engineering in Ireland, providing members with a forum to highlight and influence issues that matter to engineering, at a national level. By engaging with fellow members and supporting submissions to Government, your professional voice will be heard.

Government submissions

We speak for the engineering profession on all national policy issues by submitting many reports, articles, and presentations to Government and official bodies every year. Topics covered include infrastructure, energy, budgets, education and the overall development of the Irish economy.

Part of the EI report's curious self-justifying rationale seems to be that the proposed Poolbeg waste-to-toxins incinerator will supply heat to housing, and who could argue with such a worthy goal for the suffering socialist masses. However in practice Dublin Council has apparently made a contract which will supply the public domain good to a socialised-billionaire-speculator's offices. Mr Rudden has waffle and no numbers about waste-to-toxins energy in a totally biassed Irish Times article (April 1, 2010).

Is it ethical that the Engineers Ireland publication does not shout out the fact that report authors are from the incineration industry?

• Veolia.

• Ex-Indaver employee and ex EI President and ex-EPA-Ireland Director Burke.

Covanta has purchased Veolia North America.  Indaver is a Belgian incinerator operator with proposals to build a toxic incinerator in a flood-zone in Cork Harbour.  Toni Soprano's waste business is not mentioned.

Was paid-to-promote-incineration Burke a past-president of EI, and if so why is this kept under the radar?

Engineers Ireland Code of Ethics

Engineers Ireland Code of Ethics outlines the standards and conduct that all Engineers Ireland members must adopt in their professional lives.

The Code includes this part:

• Relations with colleagues, clients, employers and society in general

  

Here is what Judge McKechnie said in an 'unapproved' judgement in December 2009/January 2010 on Dublin City Council's Matt Twomey and his close work directing RPS 'reports' & for which RPS's Mr Rudden seems to be the director:

"Massaging of reports by Matt Twomey, which were later, in their edited versions, released publicly, is a strong indicator to me of unacceptable influence in a process supposedly carried out in the public interest,"

McKechnie said in his 'unapproved' judgment. [Sunday Business Post]

Here is an example of paid 'spin' from Mr Rudden, VP Engineers Ireland, VP RPS and paid-incinerator-promoter:

"There is no credible evidence that modern incinerators impose any risk to health."      PJ RUDDEN, Director, RPS Group, Ireland.  Irish Times, January 12, 2010

Look at that statement and compare it to Big Tobacco statements.

During a cynical DCC open-day in 2010, Covanta's engineer was aparently unable to name even one modern Covanta incinerator - even though he previously claimed over a thirty minute period, apparently, they were all modern due to continuous improvement and an awesome R&D team.

DCC refuses to conduct base line health studies.  Pollution released into the air in USA by Covanta most definitely poses more than "any" risk to human health.  The engineers excuse was that mechanical systems will always have failures.  That confirms a real threat to health, especially with regulation standards as practiced in Ireland.

Does Mr Rudden's statement match or exceed the ethics standards of Engineers Ireland?  Does the statement fully inform the public?  Is the statement true or false?  


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From EI Website:

Guidelines for making a complaint about the conduct of an Engineers Ireland member.

All members of Engineers Ireland must comply with our Code of Ethics. Members of the public who are dissatisfied with service received from a member of Engineers Ireland may make a formal complaint to the institution.   

How to make a formal complaint:   See EI website.

EI Council, 2009-2010 session.

The Council is regulated by the Engineers Ireland Bye-Laws and Code of Ethics.
Engineers Ireland Officers

• President: Dr Chris Horn, Chartered Engineer
• Vice President: Martin Lowery, Chartered Engineer
• Vice President: PJ Rudden, Chartered Engineer

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Mr Rudden & Corrib Gas Project

Since 2007 he is assisting the Corrib Partners in planning, routing, EIS and construction supervision of the modified Onshore Pipeline Route in Mayo including communications and stakeholder aspects.

Covanta

Covanta with an established dodgy record of repeated fines for breaking US pollution laws and has recently increased the money for "lobbying government".  Covanta also legally hires "ex" government or ex-regulator officials.

 

Massaged Irish Media

The Irish Times seems to publish massaged press releases more or less directly from Dublin City Council/RPS, whilst ignoring or censoring competing and accurate viewpoints.  During the property boom the Irish Times was largely funded by property supplements.  Today it needs DCC adverts. 

Socialised Comunity Gain for Speculators

DCC has a contract to supply heat from Poolbeg to a socialised-speculator miles away in Dublin's Docklands (the speculator possibly now hanging out in China has been inducted into the €80 billion national bankruptcy process and owns the NAMA treasury building; or perhaps vice versa).  Anglo's planning department for Poolbeg, DDDA, is now disgraced.  The offshored-cabal directing our native politicians governed Anglo, DDDA, DCC, Dublin Port Company and other speculators in the Banama Republic of Poolbeg.  Poolbeg scams such as the closed IGB (glass bottle recycling factory) will cost taxpayers €1 billion to €2 billion.  This same faceless cabal is pulling strings for the incinerator - all behind closed doors and for curious reasons.

RPS Spin on Incinerator Health Effects

Why did Dublin Council's paid-consultancy issue this truthiness?

"There is no credible evidence that modern incinerators impose any risk to health."      PJ RUDDEN, Director, RPS Group, Ireland.  Irish Times, January 12, 2010

Note the carefully worded phrase "modern incinerators" and the absolutest "any".  Note in particular that the phrase 'well managed' is carefully omitted.

Is it significantly more truthful to state?:

"There is credible evidence that management of modern incinerators, management as practiced by Dublin City Council, will impose a currently undetectable and unknown risk to health"

Why did RPS issue Mr Rudden's untrue statement?

RPS provides no supporting evidence for Mr Rudden's opinion in the newspaper.  Is this further "massaging" of information to shape public opinion in a public process?  [See Judge McKechnie's unapproved judgement on DCC and RPS].


Why did The Irish Times accept the letter for publication?  How much revenue does The Irish Times receive from Dublin Council?   Does The Irish Times simply regurgitate cynicalRPS/DCC press releases?

Management of public processes in Ireland does not inspire confidence.  One example is the Poolbeg Sewage Plant - badly mismanaged by DCC since it was opened in 2002.  A second Poolbeg example is government mismanagement in Poolbeg: DDDA 'bankruptcy', Anglo-Irish Bank psuedo-bankruptcy, IGB site, Fabrizia site (ZOE/Carroll 'bankruptcy') and the associated €54 Billion NAMA bailouts of banking speculators at taxpayer expense.

A 2009 British report from a politically controlled UK government agency concludes 'modern', 'well managed' incinerators do in fact make a 'small' contribution to local concentrations of air pollutants.  

The report does not state the impact of badly managed modern incinerators, bad management being quite likely based on DCC's recent record.  Additionally DCC's chosen operator seems to be continuously fined for violating EPA-USA standards.  The operator claims its facilities are continuously upgraded and thus modern, apparently.  Obviously the UK report does not factor in the additional impacts of politically massaged 'light touch regulation & monitoring' by curiously appointed EPA directors.  Nor the impact of strong-armed criminal influence in waste streams (Italian incinerators; Ireland cross-border dumping; Germany/Balkan radioactive waste).  

The political British report(a) concedes it is possible that small additions to air pollution from modern incinerators could have an impact on health.  It states with apparently lawyered-up words that such effects, if they exist, are likely to be very small and not detectable.   'Very small' does not appear to be quantified in the conclusion.  Would 125 death-equivalents per year be very small and plausible?  Does 'not detectable' really mean nobody yet has the expensive technology or the means to prove any health damage in court?  

How dangerous is a process with health impacts so subtle or not understood that you can not detect or prove those health impacts?

In the 20th century it was apparently claimed by experts that the health impact of smoking was very small and not detectable.  Since then the tobacco industry has been fined Hundreds of Billions.  That industry withheld or is it "massaged" information in a process designed to deceive the public.

The UK agency concludes it:  "will continue to work with regulators to ensure that incinerators do not contribute significantly to ill health."

Does "will continue to work with regulators to ensure that" imply a solution has not yet been found?  

Doesn't the spin-worded "do not contribute significantly to ill health" confirm that incinerators do in fact impose an unquantified or unpublished health risk?

Is this a contradiction of RPS's absolutest spin?

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(a) UK Health Protection Agency. 

The Impact on Health of Emissions to Air from Municipal Waste Incinerators.
September 2009

Conclusions

28. Modern, well managed incinerators make only a small contribution to local concentrations of air pollutants. It is possible that such small additions could have an impact on health but such effects, if they exist, are likely to be very small and not detectable. The Agency, not least through its role in advising Primary Care Trusts and Local Health Boards, will continue to work with regulators to ensure that incinerators do not contribute significantly to ill health. 

(b) Not to be confused with other plagiarised 'reports' or 'dossiers' produced on 45 minutes notice in the UK to support weapons of mass delusion.

'Chemical Ali' executed in Iraq

Chemical Ali's final death sentence came on January 17th for Halabja, when the Iraqi army used poison gas against Kurds. Around 5,000 people were believed to have been killed.   

Meanwhile in Dublin, Ireland, an Incinerator at Poolbeg producing effectively unmonitored microparticles, cynically unmonitored dioxins and cosmetically sampled chemicals could reduce life expectancy by 100,000 man-years. Each persons life is crippled by bad health for months to years.  That's perhaps crudely equivalent to 125 deaths per year for each of the Poolbeg Incinerator's first 15 years.  Not quite as bad as Chemical Ali, but check out the ethics policy of Inselaffe Engineers Ireland. 


Meanwhile in Dublin a pillar of society from Cavan, a long cowpat away from Sandymount's foreshore and seabirds, and whose firm's truth is massaged by Dublin Council (Judge McKechnie) spins:

 There is no credible evidence that modern incinerators impose any risk to health.

PJ RUDDEN,
Director, RPS Group,
Ireland.
Engineers Ireland Vice President 

 No credible evidence?   Does PJ Rudden deserves a banana in the The Banana Bar?     Perhaps PJ used the Banana Bar's dexterity to inform the contract - perhaps not?  


 RPS is paid by unelected officials in Dublin Council to promote the Poolbeg Incinerator.  RPS's statement was issued a full two months after DCC's partner Covanta was again fined for seriously breaking the law in America.  Judge McKechnie has stated in an unproved judgement that DCC massaged RPS reports and unduly influenced a public process.  

Doesn't breaking the law and polluting the air kill people or damage their health no matter how "modern" the waste-to-toxins incinerator?

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Bord Pleanála acknowledges that the current air pollution burden in Poolbeg from PM-10 air pollution particles is already at the dangerous level of 50 µg/m3.  A Poolbeg Incinerator will increase air pollution above 50 µg/m3, increasing the number of deaths from heart problems and possibly from various cancers.


For Ringsend/Poolbeg the existing air pollution level causes the risk of death from deep vein thrombosis to be ten to twenty times higher than in a relatively clean-air suburb (see chart: read this science).   Added air pollution from an incinerator will increase the relative death risk towards the 20 to 40 times higher level.


Politicians have ignored the science, ignored the scientists in Bord Pleanala and EPA-Ireland, recklessly sidelined Health Impact Reports and decided Poolbeg is an excellent location for further toxic air pollution from a Waste-To-Toxics incinerator!  It's a safe bet the politicians did this via the director level political cronies they appointed to Bord Pleanala and in EPA.   

Reputation of the Engineering Profession in Ireland: RPS & Dublin Council

Dublin City Council has spent more than €20 million on a paid-for RPS "expert planner" and for other paid-for consultants (total spent is €120 million on a white elephant, before any construction).  

An "ex" RPS employee is on the board of Bord Pleanala which is curious but not illegal in The Republic of Ireland.  EPA has "ex" incinerator business employees at Director level.  Now that Mr Twomey has retired what will he do next?

RPS is also paid to support mega-billions-Shell against the honest and jailed local farmers in Mayo.  Possibly under an alias RPS had a hand in the design of the incompetently managed sewage factory in Poolbeg which last week was again pumping out acrid chemicals across Irishtown Nature Reserve. 

What is RPS doing to the reputation of the Engineering Profession in Ireland by standing over cynically 'massaged' reports?  How can RPS-Ireland stake the international reputation of RPS on 'massaged' reports written not necessarily in the public interest?  Does it matter the reports are officially the work of Dublin Council?  RPS's logo is all over the reports.  On TV, RPS has made curious remarks about the Judge but that of course is self defence and not interference in the due process.

• Will the ethics of Ireland's Engineers now be grouped alongside Bishops, Priests, Bankers, Planners and other cute wee hoors?

"Massaging of reports by Matt Twomey, which were later, in their edited versions, released publicly, is a strong indicator to me of unacceptable influence in a process supposedly carried out in the public interest,"  McKechnie said in his 'unapproved' judgment.  [Sunday Business Post]

 Poolbeg Incinerator Hearing, Croke Park, April 2007.

Totally Credible Paid-For RPS-Planning-Expert Reading 

Another Twomey "Massaged" Expert Report?

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The IWMA pointed to the findings of independent consultants which highlighted that the consequences of building an oversized incinerator at Poolbeg would include a reduction in recycling and the loss of jobs.

DCC'S Matt Twomey & RPS Are Liars Believes Judge?

Judge McKechnie: Twomey 'massaged' RPS Reports in 2007 and 2008.

  

Judge McKechnie singled out Matt Twomey, the Dublin assistant city manager, who is in charge of waste policy [and the autocratic promotion of the Poolbeg Incinerator], for criticism, saying he was fully aware of the ‘‘massaging’’ of the reports.  [Sunday Business Post]

 

"Massaging of reports by Matt Twomey, which were later, in their edited versions, released publicly, is a strong indicator tome of unacceptable influence in a process supposedly carried out in the public interest,"  McKechnie said in his judgment.  [Sunday Business Post]

 Poolbeg Incinerator Hearing, Croke Park, April 2007.

Totally Inspirational Paid-For RPS-Planning-Agent Reading 

Another Twomey "Massaged" Expert Report?

Image:  Look at the people in the image.  Why are they so happy?  Is it their guilty Catholic consciences?

The above image was shot during the peak of the Irish property-pyramid-scheme controlled by The Galway Tent Cartel.  On the right side of the image is now-on-public-service-pension Matt Twomey, perhaps massaging his tongue.  The white box contains rabbits and hats.  Mr. Twomey's Legal Guardian Angels are to his right, Doers of Charity Work and Money Raisers for US Politicians.  DCC's partner Covanta is a USA Corporation headquartered near Toni Soprano; its public face in 2007 was DONG.

What confidence can any alert citizen have left in the apparently rigged Poolbeg Incinerator procedures?

The Sunday Business Post article below and here is about DCC's attempted  process for diverting waste from recycling and elsewhere in order to feed the grotesquely undemocratic Poolbeg incinerator.  The same Twomey & RPS team presented 'expert reports' to Bord Pleanála and EPA-Ireland to support building the Poolbeg Incinerator in the exact same time-span.  Apparently, according to Judge McKechnie these people did not serve the public interest in the matter of feeding the incinerator.  So was the process for permitting the Poolbeg Incinerator also cooked?

CAUTION: The Post's article is not about the Poolbeg Incinerator building permits from ABP or EPA; it is however about a court case on DCC's attempt to take autocratic control of the waste supply chain for incinerator and to dictate taking significant money from one million residents pockets.   

It's believed Mr Twomey worked closely with RPS to present and to 'massage' the "expert reports" for the Incinerator Oral Hearings conducted by Bord Pleanála in 2007 and to EPA in 2008. 

Curious reports paid for and presented on behalf of by Dublin Council included CBRE's property report full of guff and omitted data and misleading charts apparently fully consistent with The Big Lie Technique, and Mr P.'s air quality report where faulty kindergarten maths supported DCC's 'expert case'.  As a Judge has directly said Mr Twomey massaged reports, is it reasonable to hold the view that many Poolbeg Incinerator "Expert Reports" may contain lies or at least massaged spin and serious omissions?

Will the Galway Tent cartel now promote Mr Twomey to full Bishop?

RPS has an "ex" RPS employee on Bord Pleanala's executive bord, perhaps not unlike the Lar and Seanie show at DDDA and Anglo.  The incineration industry has Director level people in EPA (EPA condemned by Greens once upon a time before they got in line for lucrative state pensions).

Of course a Judge will not use a crudité such as liar even if that is appropriate.  Judge McKechnie uses these phrases about DCC's Twomey's control of RPS's expert reports:

• unacceptable influence 
• ‘‘massaging’’ of the reports
• delete or re-word reports
• edited versions, released publicly
• influenced the content
• "... Mr Twomey’’ went ‘‘far beyond’’ simply having a preferred outcome 

Footnote on Image and RPS:  At the microphone is a paid-for RPS "expert planner".  RPS is also paid to support mega-billions-Shell against the honest and jailed local farmers in Mayo.  Possibly under an alias RPS had a hand in the design of the incompetently managed sewage factory in Poolbeg which last week was again pumping out acrid chemicals across Irishtown Nature Reserve. 

What is RPS doing to the reputation of the Engineering Profession in Ireland by standing over cynically 'massaged' reports?  How can RPS-Ireland stake the international reputation of RPS on 'massaged' reports written not necessarily in the public interest?  Does it matter the reports are officially the work of Dublin Council?  RPS's logo is all over the reports.  Will the ethics of Ireland's Engineers now be grouped alongside Bishops, Priests, Bankers, Planners and other cute wee hoors?

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ThePost.ie

Councils criticised by court over waste report

10 January 2010  By John Burke, Public Affairs Correspondent

The High Court has severely criticised the four Dublin councils for ‘‘massaging’’ key reports into Dublin’s waste sector to influence the outcome of a review.

The court said that RPS, one of the country’s leading engineering firms, changed a number of draft reports to suit the stance of the councils. The report formed the basis for the councils’ subsequent justification to vary the capital’s waste policy.

However, this variation was quashed by Mr Justice Liam McKechnie in a recent ruling.

In his full judgment, which has been obtained by The Sunday Business Post, McKechnie said the reports contained comments written by the councils, indicating which parts of earlier drafts were acceptable to them. The councils then instructed RPS to either delete or re-word those parts ‘‘that would not have supported their position’’.

McKechnie singled out Matt Twomey, the Dublin assistant city manager, who is in charge of waste policy, for criticism, saying he was fully aware of the ‘‘massaging’’ of the reports. ‘‘Whether or not the city managers were aware of this fact is, in my opinion, immaterial:

Mr Twomey certainly was.

Such massaging of reports, which were later, in their edited versions, released publicly, is a strong indicator tome of unacceptable influence in a process supposedly carried out in the public interest," McKechnie said in his judgment.

The deletions and rewordings were carried out before the two technical reports were published in September 2007 and February 2008.

The council formally varied the waste management plan for the Dublin region in March 2008, saying that only the councils or their contractors could collect waste. The move prompted legal action from several private waste firms.

The revelation that council officials influenced the content of the reports is contained in the unapproved High Court judgment delivered by McKechnie in the case taken by private operator Panda.

RPS declined to comment when contacted by The Sunday Business Post, but said that Dublin City Council would be making a statement which also represented its views.

A spokesman for the council said: ‘‘the independent experts came to their own conclusions and stand over their reports’’.

However, McKechnie’s judgment said that the councils ‘‘and particularly MrTwomey’’ went ‘‘far beyond’’ simply having a preferred outcome to the process in mind. ‘‘From the start there could have been no other outcome," he said.

© Thomas Crosbie Media 2010.