Article Category: Fowl Emissions

AGRI-ANGER

March 11, 2021

HELL HATH no fury like an agri-committee scorned. The recent decision by the Environmental Pillar (EP), representing 26 eNGOs, to withdraw from the... Read more »

FF GREENER THAN RYAN?

February 25, 2021

“PASSING THIS legislation … means we can now move away from fossil fuels and give our complete focus to our plans to transition... Read more »

CLIMATE COUNCIL CHANGES

February 11, 2021

SWEEPING CHANGES at the Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC) bode well for future climate action, especially with far fewer economists being involved. In... Read more »

CETA: RYAN RULES

January 28, 2021

BACK IN 2017, when Green Party leader Eamon Ryan was front and centre in the civil society campaign against CETA, the EU-Canada trade... Read more »

FISHY EU BUSINESS

December 16, 2020

“EU SUPERTRAWLER hell as dolphins killed!” screamed a Daily Express headline last week. The image of foreigners catching British fish and killing British... Read more »

THE MOO CREW

December 3, 2020

GIVE ME a child until seven and I will give you the man. That old Jesuit slogan has been clearly taken to heart... Read more »

CAP SELL-OUT

November 5, 2020

“Today the European Parliament will vote on how we produce our food for the next seven years,” tweeted Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan. “The decisions... Read more »

WEAK CLIMATE BILL

October 22, 2020

Earlier this year, the Green Party fought a running battle with its internal dissenters when pushing through its endorsement of the Programme for... Read more »

PREDATORY FRACKERS

October 8, 2020

At first glance, John Mullins’s journey from his €400,000-a-year job as head of Bord Gáis to running his own renewable energy company, Amarenco... Read more »

RYAN LEAVES DOOR OPEN

October 8, 2020

A law to ban new oil and gas exploration licences “would be a historic change” and an inspiration “for the rest of the... Read more »

FLANN O’BRIEN LOGIC

August 27, 2020

Joy was unconfined in dairy circles with the recent exciting news that good old-fashioned cows’ milk was “better for the environment” than those... Read more »

COOL COURT CLIMATE

August 13, 2020

Imagine ordinary citizens being able to take the government to court to hold them to account for their climate inaction. That was the... Read more »

FORK OFF CLIMATE DEFENDERS

July 30, 2020

The EU Commission’s recently issued bombshell ‘Food to Fork’ strategy amounted to a radical demand for a complete re-think of how agriculture is... Read more »

WIND OF CHANGE?

July 16, 2020

For the past six weeks, a socially distanced protest camp has blocked construction of a wind farm at Carrigdangan in Co Cork. It’s... Read more »

RYAN VS MARTIN

July 2, 2020

It seems oddly appropriate that, as the heated internal debates within the Green Party on entering coalition approached boiling point, a wave of... Read more »

GAS ‘STORIES’

June 18, 2020

If the programme for government is green-lighted next week, it will spell the end not only for new oil and gas exploration licences,... Read more »

‘INAPPROPRIATE’ PR

June 4, 2020

The old saying about never wasting a good crisis rings true when considering the all-out PR and political assault being waged on behalf... Read more »