Article Category: Fowl Emissions

RAY BATES’S CAMPAIGN

January 25, 2024

Climate denial has lost its most persistent Irish advocate with the recent death of Prof Ray Bates, formerly of Met Éireann and UCD.... Read more »

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‘NEW’ CLIMATE DENIAL

January 25, 2024

Climate denial was once a straightforward affair. All you had to do was to grasp what a poor understanding the public and most... Read more »

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FOSSIL FUEL FINITO?

January 11, 2024
In light of the PR trainwreck that was Sultan Al Jaber’s presidency of the Cop28 climate summit – including his extremely high-profile row with... Read more »

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HOT AIR HOLIDAYS

January 11, 2024

One of the Irish Times’s last editorials of 2023 called for “a more radical approach” to climate action. Goldhawk looks forward to the... Read more »

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COP ON OR COP OUT?

December 14, 2023

Won’t anyone think of the oil companies? In a frantic communiqué issued at Cop28, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (Opec) warned that... Read more »

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BILL CALLANAN’S CANDID COMMENTS

December 14, 2023

The long-standing nitrates derogation that allows some farmers to use 250kg per hectare ends this month. A new lower limit of 220kg will... Read more »

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LEGAL ARM OF CLIMATE MOVEMENT?

November 30, 2023

Prestigious Dublin law firm McCann FitzGerald seems keen to bring its moral authority and intellectual rigour to bear on the climate crisis, judging... Read more »

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JOHN MULHERN’S JETS

November 30, 2023

Kerry Airport CEO John Mulhern has applied for permission to build a new mini-terminal for private jets at the Farranfore facility, so that... Read more »

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LOMBARD SMITES ZEALOTS

November 2, 2023
Environmental “zealots” are putting lives at risk by objecting to flood defences, declared Fine Gael senator Tim Lombard in the wake of the catastrophe... Read more »

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ZUCKERBERG’S SUNSHINE

November 2, 2023

The prospect of our homes, schools, cars and more being powered by the sun’s clean energy is one genuinely feel-good story that should... Read more »

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DAIRY STORIES

October 18, 2023

Of late, undisputed climate expert Prof Myles Allen of Oxford University has filled the gap left by departed ‘experts’ in greenhouse gas emissions.... Read more »

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JOHN FAGAN’S FARM

October 18, 2023

Congratulations to Westmeath County Council for its recent courageous decision to reject planning permission to local farmer John Fagan. In 2019, Fagan applied... Read more »

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DATA CENTRES SMOKE AND MIRRORS

October 5, 2023

Simon Coveney is the latest big hitter in the data centre PR crusade. He is the keynote speaker at DataCentres Ireland conference in... Read more »

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MICHELLE O’NEILL’S HEADACHE

September 21, 2023

LOUGH NEAGH is by far the biggest lake in either Ireland or Britain. At 400 sq km, it is as large as the... Read more »

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WOLVES AT THE DOOR

September 21, 2023

“These figures speak for themselves”. So read the statement from the European People’s Party (EPP), of which Fine Gael is a member. The... Read more »

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RYAN BOWS TO BIG TECH

September 7, 2023

Big Tech likes to be a law unto itself, free of pesky regulations, taxes and accountability. That’s why so many tech giants locate... Read more »

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MCMANUS’S HOT AIR

September 7, 2023

RTÉ TV’s autumn schedule includes too much of “Official Ireland’s latest pet cause”, Irish Independent columnist Darragh McManus claims. The pet cause he... Read more »

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MEDIA TURNS ON BIG AGRI

August 24, 2023

After years of coverage ranging from uncritical to downright fawning, there are clear hints that the Irish media’s love affair with agriculture may... Read more »

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LIVELY LIVESTOCK

August 24, 2023
New research has found that livestock farmers in the EU receive around 1,200 times more public funding than plant-based or cultivated meat groups. “Powerful... Read more »

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CLIMATE CAMP POLITICS

August 10, 2023
Ireland’s first Climate Camp in 2009 pitched up beside the peat-burning power station at Shannonbridge. The plant has since shut. In 2010 they protested... Read more »

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MUSK’S NEW MOVE

August 10, 2023
AS SOON as Elon Musk took over Twitter last October, climate denial began surging on the platform, along with hate speech. Like many on... Read more »

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CENSORSHIP AT WILDLIFE TRUST

July 27, 2023

ONE OF Ireland’s leading environmental NGOs, the Irish Wildlife Trust (IWT) has been thrown into chaos following the resignation of its campaigns officer,... Read more »

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DAVID QUINN’S CONVERSION

July 27, 2023
IN A shocking epiphany, Iona Institute director and media commentator David Quinn has finally admitted the climate change is… real. “I think a lot... Read more »

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BANKS’ GLOBAL CLIMATE ARSON

July 13, 2023

Citibank’s European HQ in Dublin’s docklands was bedecked with rainbow flags for last month’s Pride festival. Nothing unusual there – Pride has become... Read more »

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LANSDOWNE OIL’S SUNSET

July 13, 2023
It finally looks like it’s curtains for the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT), which allows corporations to sue governments if policy decisions – including climate... Read more »

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THE POLLUTION PARADOX

June 29, 2023

“What if someone nurtured nature, planted hedgerows to make room for the birds and bees, and quietly helped reduce emissions by stitching clover... Read more »

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DUNCAN STEWART’S SPEECH

June 28, 2023

Kudos to Dublin City Council and lord mayor Caroline Conroy for the decision to bestow the Freedom of the City to environmentalists for... Read more »

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ICE IN LEO VARADKAR’S VEINS

June 15, 2023
IN 2019 Leo Varadkar pointed out that climate change had its “benefits” as well as its “downsides”. You know, warmer Irish winters and the... Read more »

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ENVIRONMENTAL ‘EXPERTS’

May 18, 2023

Once the favourite punch-bag of environmentalists, the semi-state Bord na Móna (BnaM) has morphed from the bog-destroying climate villain to the squeaky new... Read more »

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MILK BILL

May 18, 2023

The free-spending National Dairy Council (NDC) – a private, farmer-owned marketing company – has not been seeing eye to eye with the Revenue... Read more »

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TACKLING MICHAEL D.

May 3, 2023

“Many economists remain stuck in an inexorable growth narrative, or at best a ‘green growth’ narrative,” which has “resulted in a discipline… blinkered... Read more »

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ANOTHER GREEN/RED LINE GONE

May 3, 2023

Sinn Féin really is a laggard when it comes to climate policy but some in the party seem to be making an effort.... Read more »

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

April 19, 2023

Given the constant chorus from the livestock sector claiming it is being unfairly demonised on emissions while fossil fuel companies are not subject... Read more »

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IRELAND DUMPS ON AFRICA

April 19, 2023

In his recent address to the Oireachtas, US President Joe Biden said that “Ireland remembers the painful hollows of the Great Hunger”. He... Read more »

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ROUND UP THE USUAL LOBBYISTS

April 6, 2023

‘ROUNDUP’ SEASON is approaching – that time of year when Ireland’s verges, parks, playgrounds and farmland are doused in toxic chemicals that trash... Read more »

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TECH ENERGY CUTS?

April 5, 2023

“We have placed Amazon in energy sobriety because we are looking for billions to finance pensions and we believe this money is there.”... Read more »

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