Material in this file relates to the Japanese textile plant, ASAHI, and their application for licence under Pollution Control provisions for the Fisheries Acts in 1975.
File includes letter from Mayo County Council to An Taisce enclosing copies of the application form and supporting documentation submitted by Asahi, 03/05/1974; letter from RP Power, New Industries Division, Industrial Development Authority Ireland (IDA) to J O'Loughlin Kennedy, Director of An Taisce, in relation to SO2 concentrations which could be expected at the beaches of Easkey and Enniscrone, County Sligo, due to Asahi development at Killala, 21/05/1974; copy of document on Ballina Regional Water Supply Scheme, Mayo County Council delivered at IDA/Asahi meeting, Ballina, 23/05/1974; planning permission (02/08/1974), conditions and copy of Agreement made between Mayo County Council and Asahi Synthetic Fibres (Ireland) Limited and Asahi Spinning (Ireland) Limited, 31/07/1974; document from Mayo County Council on proposed development noting members of the council Engineering staff and representatives of the Japanese firm were prepared to meet with local organisations to deal with any queries, 197[4/5?]; report on visit by P.P. Donovan, MSc PhD, and Public Analyst and Dr Liam O'Se, TD [Teachta Dála, member of Dáil Éireann, lower house of Irish parliament], County Medical Officer to Water Research Centre, Stevenage, United Kingdom, 05/09/1974; photocopy of confidential report to Mayo County Council on tidal float surveys in Killala Bay, from Water Resources Division, An Foras Forbartha, [National Institute for Physical Planning and Construction Research Limited, which later is subsumed into the Environmental Protection Agency] 09/1974; photocopy of news release, statement by Asahi company on a press release issued by the Ballina Board of Conservators in February 1975, 13/03/1975; typed report of objections re proposal to lay industrial effluent outfall pipeline on the foreshore at Killa[la] Bay, background info on company, PP Donovan, MSc PhD, 17/05/1975; copy of typed press release from Ballina Board of Conservators, 197[5?]; photocopy of letter of objection to granting of permission for pipeline sent from John O'Loughlin, Kennedy, An Taisce to Secretary, Department of Transport & Power, 23/05/1975; Report on Industrial Developments at Killala Bay, E. Hannan, Chief Executive Officer, Western Health Board to members of the Ballina Board of Conservators, 30/05/1975; photocopies of correspondence received by Western Health Board from Seán Tobin, Board member, including several queries, June 1975; typed letter, and copy, to Senator Mary Robinson (MR) from [Breen?] representing several Fishing Organisations objecting to placing of the Asahi effluent pipe in the location chosen, 10/07/1975; background research material including photocopies of articles on effect of some nitrites on fish, n.d., copies of epidemiological study of health impairment among acrylonitrile workers, n.d., photocopy of extract from Encyclopaedia of Occupational Health and Safety, hand drawn maps on graph paper of location of pipeline; photocopy of letter from James Farrell, Hon Secretary, Irish Federation of Sea Anglers, to Minister, Department of Transport and Power, in relation to their concern with the effluent disposal arrangements at the proposed factory of Asahi Chemical Industries Ltd at Tawnaghmore, Killala Bay, 16/07/1975; document "Asahi Dublin Port Development - Lifeline to the West" and cover letter from Goro Yoshizaki, Managing Director, Asahi Synthetic Fibres (Ireland) Limited, stating much of controversy based on misinformation 17/07/1975; letter from Mervyn Clarke, Radiologist and member of Board [Ballina Board of Conservators?] to MR which accompanied some of research material on Acrylonitrile, vinyl cyanide, and which states that the board does not consider the Industrial Research and Standards as an independent body since they had been retained by Mayo County Council; photocopy of letter enclosing licence under the Pollution Control Provisions of the fisheries Act, from P.J. Maloney, Department of Agriculture and Fisheries, to Goro Yoshizaki, Asahi Chemical Industry (Ireland) Ltd., 29/07/1975; letter from O'Loughlin Kennedy, An Taisce to MR referring to useful meeting with Asahi, 30/07/1975; handwritten notes including list of members of deputation to see Parliamentary Secretary for Fisheries [Department], and Minister for Transport & Power, 31 July [1975] which includes MR as Senator and lists Adrian Bourke, bother of MR, as legal advisor; circular from Western Health Board to members re board meeting, 06/10/1975 to discuss queries raised by Seán Tobin, 30/09/1975; letter to Senator MR from office of Minister for Transport and Power in relation to the licence Minister offered to Asahi and issues she raised in previous correspondence, 15/10/1975; letter from O'Loughlin Kennedy to MR which she forwarded to Adrian Bourke, outlining general contents of conditions of licence agreement, 21-27/10/1975; photocopy of letter from Department of Transport and Power to Adrian Bourke outlining reasons licence was granted, 12/11/1975; letter from David Holden to MR relating to next meeting to be held (of deputation?) 21/11/1975; letter from Toshinori Onodera, Managing Director, Asahi to MR, enclosing updated brochure, 23/02/1976; letter to MR from member of public, James J Baskerville asking that she take action and enclosing letter he wrote to Irish times in 1975, 26/02/1977; cuttings 05/03/1975-11/7/1977.
