Some 30 jobs are to be created by a company which plans to sell spring water from the Cooley Peninsula in the United Arab Emirates and other countries in the Middle East, writes Elaine Keogh.
Kildare-based company Freshwater Transport International Limited yesterday secured the support of Louth County Council for the project, which will be based in the former Pan-Pak bottling factory in Greenore on the Cooley Peninsula.
The company proposes to ship the water from the nearby Greenore Port and has, councillors were told, “identified a market for non-luxury bottled water and has established a partnership with Middle Eastern-based business”.
The council was told there is no threat to the public water supply in Greenore or Cooley because there “are a plethora of springs” in the picturesque Peninsula and the Carlingford aquifer, which currently produces 1,200 cubed metres a day, “has significant potential” to augment supplies.
The company wants to lease the existing water production facility in Greenore from the council, as well as some of the water pipes in the area to supply the proposed water bottling and treatment plant in the old Pan Pak factory.
The councillors endorsed the proposal from the company at its monthly meeting yesterday.