Article Category: Fowl Emissions

MERLIN NAUGHTEN

February 22, 2018

IT’S NO secret that wishful thinking remains the main policy weapon the government deploys when it comes to hitting tough international commitments on... Read more »

O’Reilly digs deep

February 8, 2018

YOU HAVE to feel sorry for those intrepid oil and gas explorers under constant siege from scientists and campaigners. Oil prices are low... Read more »

Paddy Power’s gas terminal

February 8, 2018

EU countries can burn gas for just nine more years before exhausting their share of the earth’s carbon budget to keep global warming... Read more »

CLIMATE: IT’S GOOD NEWS WEEK!

January 25, 2018

WHEN IT comes to addressing climate change, the twin buzzwords are mitigation and adaptation. Mitigation means doing what the science demands to slow... Read more »

COASTING TO DISASTER

January 11, 2018

AT 1km long, Donald Trump’s Irish wall doesn’t enjoy quite as much global infamy as his Mexican wall. However, Clare County Council’s decision... Read more »

AGRI-PR FAILS TO CONVINCE

December 14, 2017

PHIL HOGAN is about the last person you’d expect to find socking it to Ireland’s agri-food industry, but that’s exactly what the EU’s... Read more »

IRELAND IS THE WORST IN EUROPE

November 30, 2017

BILLS TO ban fossil fuel exploration are like buses: you wait years for one and then two come along at once. Within a... Read more »

UNCONSTITUTIONAL CLIMATE

November 2, 2017

WHEN ALL else fails, take them to court. Yet again, it falls to the poorly supported, barely solvent environmental NGO sector to try... Read more »

IRELAND LEADS FROM REAR

October 19, 2017

When cost to Ireland of Storm Ophelia’s fury is calculated, will that figure feature in future cost/benefit analyses as the Government considers whether... Read more »

CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLY STRIKES AGAIN

October 5, 2017

WHEN politicians want an issue to go away, a favourite ploy is to bury it alive in a talking shop. If that was... Read more »

MONSANTO’S FIGHT FOR ‘ROUNDUP’

September 21, 2017

IF YOUR business is managing reputations, it pays to have well-heeled clients. A case in point is Hume Brophy, whose modest HQ in... Read more »

Fracking : The Irish Way

August 24, 2017

Seán Kelly For Irish problems there are Irish solutions. Women travel abroad for abortions. Neutral Ireland refuels US warplanes at Shannon Airport. And... Read more »

ROSS TO ELECTRIFY TRANSPORT?

August 10, 2017

Shane Ross IS THERE any part of the environmental agenda that Ireland doesn’t have to be dragged kicking and screaming into, to achieve... Read more »

VARADKAR IS NO MACRON

July 27, 2017

Emmanuel Macron A “fundamental societal transformation”. With these words, on the first page of his Government’s (very) long-awaited National Mitigation Plan (NMP) on... Read more »

TRUMP’S IRISH ALLIES

July 13, 2017

DESPITE the efforts of the Trump regime, the international consensus on stepping up action to tackle climate change remains largely intact. In some... Read more »

CLIMATE FRIENDLY LEO VARADKAR?

June 29, 2017

WITHIN hours of receiving his seal of office from Michael D Higgins, our new Taoiseach took the very deliberate step of publicly distancing... Read more »

DUP’S GLOBAL CHILLING

June 15, 2017

NORTHERN Irish politics doesn’t produce many laughs. One of the better ones involved the Democratic Unionist Party’s Sammy Wilson, when interviewed in Belfast... Read more »

VICTIMISED CLIMATE DENIERS

June 2, 2017

FROM the moment Claire Byrne uttered her sulky opening question – “Climate change: should anyone dare to debate the fundamentals?” – it was... Read more »

BATES’S BALI-HOO

May 17, 2017

BACK IN 2007, an international group of respected mainstream scientists co-signed what was known as the Bali Climate Declaration. It warned that global... Read more »

SEAWEED SECRECY

May 3, 2017

THE ADVERTISING gurus who market Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way will soon be able to supplement the romantic imagery of rugged coastline, dolphins and... Read more »

IFA LOSES RAG

April 19, 2017

ARE THE wheels starting to come off Ireland’s most formidable lobbying machine? The IFA’s attack on Fianna Fáil last month for failing to... Read more »

ECO WARRIORS OF DESTINY

April 5, 2017

IS FIANNA FÁIL in danger of becoming the party of the environment? The wonders of new politics have allowed grassroots campaigners to arm-twist... Read more »

DENIS NAUGHTEN ABANDONS CLIMATE ACTION

March 23, 2017

IS DENIS Naughten now Ireland’s Minister for Not Telling People What To Do? The recently published draft National Mitigation Plan (NMP) is a... Read more »

NAUGHTEN’S FUTILE ‘AMBASSADORS’

March 9, 2017

DENIS NAUGHTEN is appointing “climate action ambassadors” in every county as part of a new “national dialogue on climate change” he launched in... Read more »

NOT-SO-WISE FOOD PLAN

February 23, 2017

CLIMATE DENIER Scott Pruitt was confirmed this month to head the US Environment Protection Agency. When working as Oklahoma’s attorney general, he took... Read more »

FRACKING: TO BAN OR NOT TO BAN?

February 9, 2017

THE Times of India described the Dáil’s progress of the bill as “historic”, while Russia Today recorded “an important moment in the history... Read more »

DONALD TRUMP’S CLIMATE CREED

January 25, 2017

THE Trump presidency has become reality and with it eight years of American leadership on global efforts to curb the ever-worsening impacts of... Read more »

PERVERSE EU POLICY

January 12, 2017

ON CHRISTMAS Day police in Sydney pulled off the largest cocaine bust in Australian history, seizing 500kg of the drug from a boat... Read more »

TCD GOES WITH THE FLOW

December 14, 2016

WHEN a student society at Trinity College declared last month it was “standing in solidarity” with Native American protestors blocking an oil pipeline... Read more »

POST TRUMP CLIMATE

December 1, 2016

THE VICTORY of Donald Trump in the US election is bad news on many fronts with the Republican Party scrambling to make America... Read more »

FRACKING: WHAT’S IN A NAME?

November 3, 2016

ANTI-FRACKING campaigners are not quite sure whether it’s too soon to celebrate – Clare Daly warned those gathered at the Dáil last week... Read more »

NAUGHTEN’S CHALLENGE

October 20, 2016

THE IRISH public could be forgiven for concluding that the term climate action has something to do with funding RTÉ. After all, since... Read more »

JOHN FITZGERALD DISAPPOINTS

October 5, 2016

THE great and good of Ireland’s environment world were treated to a bewildering double act last month that laid bare the gaping chasm... Read more »

IRELAND EXPORTS FRACKING OPS

September 21, 2016

IRELAND HAS been mostly quiet on the fracking front, but last month Goldhawk’s attention was caught by reports of an Irish company having... Read more »

KENNY TRUMPS CLIMATE ACCORD

September 7, 2016

DONALD TRUMP is probably not the first name that springs to mind when major international breakthroughs in tackling climate change are being discussed.... Read more »

CHILLY ENVIRONMENT AT BAI

August 24, 2016

THE Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) hasn’t been making too many friends in environmental circles lately. This month it delivered a double-whammy of... Read more »