A community group has won a High Court fight against An Bord Pleanála’s approval of Aughinish Alumina’s proposed expansion on the Shannon estuary.
Futureproof Clare challenged the decision to allow the Russian-owned aluminium refinery to expand their waste disposal area near two protected nature sites.
The plant was built on the Limerick bank of the Shannon in 1983 and is now the biggest bauxite refinery in Europe producing 1.9 million tonnes of alumina a year.
