BREXIT IS BAD FOR THE PLANET July 28, 2016 “A MORE flexible approach to environmental protection” – this Orwellian promise from UK farming minister George Eustice ominously sums up the likely direction... Read more »
MONSANTO GETS ROUNDUP EXTENSION July 15, 2016 AS a ‘good week to bury bad news’, the one following the Brexit vote was hard to beat. As it happened, the timing... Read more »
DUBLIN AIRPORT CLIMATE PICKLE July 2, 2016 FALLOUT from the Brexit vote may prove something of a gift for the Dublin Airport Authority’s (DAA) ambitious plan to have a second... Read more »
BORD NA MÓNA’S ‘GREENWASH’ June 17, 2016 “Almost 1,500 jobs” could be lost if Bord na Móna is prevented from harvesting peat for its Edenderry power plant in Co Offaly.... Read more »
FRACKING BY ANOTHER NAME June 1, 2016 “LIKE having a pissing section in a swimming pool,” is how Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan TD described the notion of allowing fracking on only... Read more »
NAUGHTEN’S SPLIT PERSONALITY May 18, 2016 HAVING heard Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary calling for cyclists to be shot and Danny Healy-Rae insisting that climate change is God-made, environmentalists could have... Read more »
BRENDAN GLEESON’S PIPELINE TO RTÉ May 5, 2016 WITH gas flowing through Shell’s contentious refinery in northwest Mayo since December 30 last, one of the legacies left by the demonisation of... Read more »
TONY McLOUGHLIN TD AND FRACKING April 22, 2016 “THE EPA Research Study on Fracking is now stopped,” declared the Good Energies Alliance Ireland (GEAI) on its website on February 3, in... Read more »
HOW GREEN WILL GOVERNMENT BE? April 7, 2016 AS talks on forming a government drag on, what hope of an environmentally friendly government? With 2015 the hottest year on record globally,... Read more »
FRACKING NORTH AND SOUTH March 24, 2016 THE “end of the fossil fuel era” was the favoured description for December’s historic agreement at the COP21 climate summit in Paris, as... Read more »
