Article Category: Fowl Emissions

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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IRELAND WORST POLLUTER IN EU

March 23, 2023
At first glance, there was nothing radically new in the release this week by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of its synthesis... Read more »

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IRISH TIMES HOT AIR

March 22, 2023

Times are tough in the print media, but there was still a collective gasp at the decision of the Irish Times last weekend... Read more »

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‘GOUGING’ THE EARTH

March 8, 2023

‘Writing the Earth’ is the catchy title of a programme starting this week at the Irish Writers’ Centre in Dublin, which brings writers... Read more »

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BERNARD LOONEY’S CLIMATE FIGHT

March 8, 2023

The Healy-Raes aren’t the only famous Kerry men with a knack for spouting nonsense on climate. The head of oil giant BP, Bernard... Read more »

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EYE ON THE WORLD

February 22, 2023

IRELAND’S LONGEST-running environmental TV programme, Eco Eye, bowed out this month after a 21-year run. With the climate and biodiversity crisis deepening by... Read more »

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DAVID HORGAN’S HOT AIR

February 22, 2023

They say it’s best to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt. Petrel Resources chair... Read more »

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FAR-RIGHT ECO MILITANTS

February 9, 2023

“BUILDING RESILIENT communities” is the tagline for Think Local, a one-day conference at the Shearwater Hotel in Ballinasloe later this month that claims... Read more »

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ED BROPHY’S LOBBYING

February 9, 2023

IT’S SURELY a sign of a very persuasive lobbyist if the person being lobbied ditches their government job and steps through the revolving... Read more »

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‘NAZI SHOW TRIALS’

January 26, 2023

IRELAND’S BIODIVERSITY crisis is so severe it now requires a “societal response”, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar told the Citizens’ Assembly (CA) at the weekend.... Read more »

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BOYD-BARETT AND THE NIMBYS

January 26, 2023

WILL THE 2020s become the decade that Ireland finally takes its place as a major player in renewable energy? Not if the nimbys... Read more »

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BRIGHT RED FLAGS

January 12, 2023

GOLDHAWK WAS browsing the lobbying register during the Christmas break and was intrigued to see that a board member of Oxfam Ireland has... Read more »

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NOTEWORTHY EMISSIONS

January 12, 2023

AN INVESTIGATION by the excellent Noteworthy website has revealed that data centres’ on-site carbon emissions are 35 times higher than a decade ago.... Read more »

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SF’S CLIMATE NO-CHANGE POLICY

December 15, 2022

THIS YEAR Sinn Féin received some serious political flak for staying schtum on the thorny issue of setting emissions targets for agriculture to... Read more »

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GOLDEN DALE

December 15, 2022

CONGRATULATIONS TO incoming director of Meat Industry Ireland Dale Crammond, who has spun through the revolving door of being a senior inspector in... Read more »

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LARRY GOODMAN’S OIL STRIKE

December 1, 2022

YOU’RE NEVER too old to reinvent yourself. At 85, billionaire beef baron Larry Goodman is starting a new career – as an aspiring... Read more »

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EU ROUNDS UP RENEWAL

December 1, 2022

Imagine if civil servants ignored the outcome of a Dáil vote and implemented a policy measure against the wishes of a majority of... Read more »

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WHERE’S THE BEEF?

November 2, 2022

FOR DECADES the fossil fuel industry has avoided regulation by systematically misrepresenting the science around climate change. To maintain the illusion of credibility,... Read more »

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LESS THAN FRANK

November 2, 2022

ALONG WITH developing dubious narratives around meat and nutrition, the livestock sector has also invested heavily in spinning away the huge climate impact... Read more »

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WHO BOMBED NORD STREAM?

October 19, 2022

Last month’s sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic Sea was another godsend for the captains of the US gas industry... Read more »

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OSSIAN SMYTH’S DATA ISLAND

October 19, 2022

The CEPA energy security review commissioned by Eamon Ryan stresses the urgent need to reduce Ireland’s energy consumption and politely notes that data... Read more »

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WEAK CLIMATE BUDGET 2023

October 6, 2022

When delivering Budget 2023, finance minister Pascal Donohoe referred to “our defining challenge of climate change”. Those expecting this budget to be the... Read more »

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SCEPTIC SKEHAN

October 6, 2022

THE Sunday Independent continues to platform landscape architect, planner and would-be influencer extraordinaire Conor Skehan. While lacking either expertise or credibility on energy... Read more »

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