Fresh concerns have been raised that Clare farmers will be impacted by a controversial €4.5bn Uisce Éireann plan to pump water from the River Shannon to Dublin.
The project involves the construction of a 170km pipeline that will extract 2% of the Parteen Basin’s annual flow, to supply an additional treated water source to Dublin, Meath, Kildare and Wicklow.
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The IFA and ICMSA have agreed a compensation package with Uisce Éireann that’s understood to be worth an average of 100,000 euro for affected landowners.
However, Clare IFA Chair Stephen Walsh believes it could have unintended consequences.
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