In a case brought by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Masonite company at Derryoughter, Drumsna, Co Leitrim, was convicted and fined £100 at Carrick-on-Shannon District Court yesterday and ordered to pay agreed expenses of £16,182 with costs of £1,936. Masonite, which produces moulded timber door facings, was convicted of breaching an Integrated Pollution Licence issued to it by the EPA.
It was alleged to have failed to ensure that all operations on site resulting in emissions to the atmosphere were carried out in a manner which ensured that no odour or dust nuisance occurred beyond the site boundary, between July 20th, 1997, and December 31st, 1997.
Mr Barry Doyle, for the EPA, told the court that the process of formaldehyde emissions at the plant had stopped.