Fowl Emissions Archives

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 »

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LOBBYING THE AG

June 18, 2020

Meanwhile, the Irish Offshore Operators’ Association is understandably less than pleased about the promise to end exploration. Its CEO Mandy Johnston – Bertie... 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 »

MEASURING THE GAS-GUZZLERS

June 4, 2020

Prior to 2008, big cars came with even bigger annual road tax bills. Then, thanks to an ill-conceived change in the rules in... Read more »

MOORE’S ALMANAC

May 21, 2020

US FILM MAKER Michael Moore is doing his best to sabotage the boom in renewable energy with his latest attack documentary, Planet of... Read more »

NOEL SMYTH’S TACTICS

May 21, 2020

Social distancing is suddenly bringing us the wider footpaths and cycle lanes that years of campaigning could not quite manage to do. It’s... Read more »

SIMON COVENEY’S DOG WHISTLE

May 7, 2020

AN INTRIGUING game of cat and mouse is being played out between the Green Party and Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael over the Greens’ so-called... Read more »

JOHN FITZGERALD’S GAS ADVICE

May 7, 2020

THERE HAS been little reason for cheer in the oil and gas division of the Department of Climate Action & Environment in recent... Read more »

JOHN FITZGERALD’S TWO HATS

April 23, 2020

LIKE MOST of the Fianna Fáil/Fine Gael ‘draft document’ on forming a government, the section on climate is vague and threadbare. There is... Read more »

SEAMUS WOLFE’S ENERGY POLICY

April 23, 2020

AMID THE coronavirus chaos, carmakers, airlines and oil companies are persuading governments to roll back environmental regulations to help them weather the Covid-19... Read more »

COVID-19’S CLIMATE CALAMITY

April 9, 2020

THE CORONAVIRUS crisis has delivered a harsh reminder that all human enterprises ultimately exist at the whim of nature. The global spread of... Read more »

HOT STUFF

April 9, 2020

IN THE middle of a national emergency, it requires a special type of reckless entitlement to be starting illegal fires on the mountains... Read more »

THAT’S JUST GAS

March 26, 2020

IT WAS probably unremarkable that this year’s Green Awards judges gave out two gongs to a fossil fuel network provider, Gas Networks Ireland... Read more »

MICHAEL CREED’S SECURE LINE

March 26, 2020

WATCHING POLITICAL leaders respond to the coronavirus, it’s impossible not to contrast it to the foot-dragging that passes for climate, er, action. After... Read more »

IMPRESSING OUR GREEN CREDENTIALS ON THE ROYALS

March 12, 2020

No celebrity visit to Ireland would be complete without the now-mandatory photo op involving a pint of Guinness. And so it was when... Read more »

ELECTRIC AVENUE

February 27, 2020

The outgoing government’s promise to fill the nation’s roads with electric vehicles (EVs) will not solve the climate crisis or ease traffic congestion,... Read more »

MARIA WALSH’S VOTES

February 27, 2020

“A kick in the teeth to Kerry people,” was how Michael Healy-Rae described MEP Maria Walsh’s decision to vote against the Shannon LNG... Read more »

GREEN ON GREEN

February 13, 2020

It was supposed to be the climate election, but the shade of green that came to dominate Election 2020 was that of republicanism... Read more »

JOHN FITZGERALD’S EMISSIONS

February 13, 2020

Has veteran economist Prof John FitzGerald been outfoxed by the Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA)? FitzGerald, who chairs the government-appointed Climate Change Advisory Council... Read more »

CLIMATE ELECTION?

January 30, 2020

With the fate of humanity hanging in the balance, surely this was to be climate election? Surveys show a majority of voters want... Read more »

GAS MAN PHIL HOGAN

January 30, 2020

As Blueshirt ministers do their best to sound concerned about the climate crisis, former colleague Phil Hogan is refreshingly devoid of such virtue-signalling.... Read more »

VEGAN VAGARIES

January 16, 2020

The agri-industrial sector has worked itself into a lather over what it clearly sees are threats to its core beef-and-dairy business, with the... Read more »

JOHN PAUL PHELAN’S CHEAP SHOT

January 16, 2020

Embattled Australian PM Scott Morrison has shipped plenty of well-earned flak for his staunch defence of the most polluting industries in his country.... Read more »

CLIMATE PR

December 12, 2019

FOR THE global army of Irish diplomats who have canvassed for years on behalf of Ireland’s vanity project – a seat on the... Read more »

JOHN FITZGERALD’S PHILOSOPHY

December 12, 2019

Leo and Richard are fond of saying that they’re listening to the angry young climate activists taking to the streets in their thousands,... Read more »

LOAVES AND FISHES

November 28, 2019

The biblical tale of the miracle of the loaves and fishes has nothing on Ireland’s world-beating beef and dairy sectors, which, if we... Read more »

DARRRAGH MCCULLOUGH’S ATTACK

November 28, 2019

Are Ireland’s farmers at risk of becoming social pariahs? This claim was made not by the usual farmer-bashing eco types but by a... Read more »

RYAN WOBBLES ALREADY

October 31, 2019

After years as a fringe resistance movement in Kerry and Clare, the battle against Shannon LNG has suddenly gone implausibly mainstream, with a... Read more »

‘IRISH TIMES’ CLIMATE ISSUE

October 31, 2019

The ubiquitous ‘energy security’ bogeyman was enlisted for a recent survey by the Irish Offshore Operators’ Association, which asked was “finding more Irish... Read more »

WHAT’S A HYBRID CAR?

October 16, 2019

Earlier this month, RTÉ’s website ran a scoop, headlined, ‘Toyota to drop petrol versions of Corolla and C-HR’. Motoring editor Donal Byrne explained... Read more »

CALM REBELLION

October 16, 2019

“Gardaí we love you, we’re doing this for your children too.” This was the surreal chant emanating from the Extinction Rebels during a... Read more »

GREAT GAS GUYS!

October 3, 2019

“IT’S OIL OVER!” declared the Irish Daily Mirror’s front-page headline, heralding Leo Varadkar’s ‘historic’ announcement at the UN Climate Summit in New York... Read more »

SAFE CITY

October 3, 2019

Dublin City Council has closed College Green to traffic on several Sundays recently, as an “experiment” – presumably to test whether civilisation would... Read more »

CLIMATE DENIERS

September 19, 2019

In the rich annals of human stupidity, it is unlikely that the phenomenon of organised climate denial will ever be surpassed for sheer... Read more »

RICHARD BRUTON’S SINK

September 19, 2019

It may have been the excitement of the National Ploughing Championships, but climate action minister Richard Bruton rushed out a press release from... Read more »

GARDEN OF EDENS

September 5, 2019

US billionaire Wes Edens has an “affinity for the underdog”, according to the Wall Street Journal. Edens is founder and CEO of New... Read more »