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The Court of Appeal has affirmed the High Court's decision to uphold the granting of an Industrial Emissions License for an intensive poultry rearing operation. The original court found no error in the Environmental Protection Agency's decision to grant the license for rearing 74,000 broiler chickens, despite challenges focusing on the environmental impact of spreading poultry litter and wash water as fertiliser on lands outside the installation. The appellant's primary contention that the license authorised off-site land spreading of waste, which should have been assessed under the license, was dismissed. The court determined that the license pertained solely to the on-site rearing activity and did not extend to the regulation of off-site land spreading.
Industrial Emissions License (IE license), intensive poultry farming, broiler chickens, Environmental Protection Agency, land spreading, fertilizer, poultry litter, wash water, Court of Appeal, High Court, environmental impact assessment, Appropriate Assessment, Waste Directive, Animal By-products Regulations, Good Agricultural Practices for Protection of Waters Regulations 2017 (GAP regulations), nitrates, phosphates, eutrophication, environmental pollution, emissions, waste, habitat conservation.
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