Article Category: Fowl Emissions

BOG STANDARD RTÉ PROGRAMME

May 17, 2018
“THIS IS the story of Ireland’s best kept secret.” So RTÉ’s Derek Mooney began... Read more »

WHAT SHELL KNEW

May 3, 2018
When Shell took over Corrib Gas in 2002, it surely did not foresee the... Read more »

POOR CHILLY SODDEN FARMERS

April 19, 2018
CRISIS, what crisis? It seems like only yesterday when our media was awash with... Read more »

PLASTIC PADDIES

April 5, 2018
THE dutiful consumers of Ireland are being enlisted as (polite) eco-warriors for one day... Read more »

LEO’S WINDY ‘JOKE’

March 22, 2018
There was much to cringe over in Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s lame attempt to curry... Read more »

WHEN IS A DECISION NOT A DECISION?

March 8, 2018
WHEN IT comes to getting big dirty fossil fuel infrastructure past the various political... Read more »

PIPELINE TIMELINE

March 6, 2018
IN 2016, when Enda Kenny’s economic adviser Andrew McDowell became Ireland’s nominee for the... Read more »

MERLIN NAUGHTEN

February 22, 2018
IT’S NO secret that wishful thinking remains the main policy weapon the government deploys... Read more »

Sacred Cows

February 22, 2018
The government’s new national development plan had that “one for everyone in the audience”... Read more »

O’Reilly digs deep

February 8, 2018
YOU HAVE to feel sorry for those intrepid oil and gas explorers under constant... Read more »

Paddy Power’s gas terminal

February 8, 2018
EU countries can burn gas for just nine more years before exhausting their share... Read more »

CLIMATE: IT’S GOOD NEWS WEEK!

January 25, 2018
WHEN IT comes to addressing climate change, the twin buzzwords are mitigation and adaptation.... Read more »

COASTING TO DISASTER

January 11, 2018
AT 1km long, Donald Trump’s Irish wall doesn’t enjoy quite as much global infamy... Read more »

AGRI-PR FAILS TO CONVINCE

December 14, 2017
PHIL HOGAN is about the last person you’d expect to find socking it to... Read more »

IRELAND IS THE WORST IN EUROPE

November 30, 2017
BILLS TO ban fossil fuel exploration are like buses: you wait years for one... Read more »

UNCONSTITUTIONAL CLIMATE

November 2, 2017
WHEN ALL else fails, take them to court. Yet again, it falls to the... Read more »

IRELAND LEADS FROM REAR

October 19, 2017
When cost to Ireland of Storm Ophelia’s fury is calculated, will that figure feature... Read more »

CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLY STRIKES AGAIN

October 5, 2017
WHEN politicians want an issue to go away, a favourite ploy is to bury... Read more »

MONSANTO’S FIGHT FOR ‘ROUNDUP’

September 21, 2017
IF YOUR business is managing reputations, it pays to have well-heeled clients. A case... Read more »

Fracking : The Irish Way

August 24, 2017
Seán Kelly For Irish problems there are Irish solutions. Women travel abroad for abortions.... Read more »

ROSS TO ELECTRIFY TRANSPORT?

August 10, 2017
Shane Ross IS THERE any part of the environmental agenda that Ireland doesn’t have... Read more »

VARADKAR IS NO MACRON

July 27, 2017
Emmanuel Macron A “fundamental societal transformation”. With these words, on the first page of... Read more »

TRUMP’S IRISH ALLIES

July 13, 2017
DESPITE the efforts of the Trump regime, the international consensus on stepping up action... Read more »

CLIMATE FRIENDLY LEO VARADKAR?

June 29, 2017
WITHIN hours of receiving his seal of office from Michael D Higgins, our new... Read more »

DUP’S GLOBAL CHILLING

June 15, 2017
NORTHERN Irish politics doesn’t produce many laughs. One of the better ones involved the... Read more »

VICTIMISED CLIMATE DENIERS

June 2, 2017
FROM the moment Claire Byrne uttered her sulky opening question – “Climate change: should... Read more »

BATES’S BALI-HOO

May 17, 2017
BACK IN 2007, an international group of respected mainstream scientists co-signed what was known... Read more »

SEAWEED SECRECY

May 3, 2017
THE ADVERTISING gurus who market Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way will soon be able to... Read more »

IFA LOSES RAG

April 19, 2017
ARE THE wheels starting to come off Ireland’s most formidable lobbying machine? The IFA’s... Read more »

ECO WARRIORS OF DESTINY

April 5, 2017
IS FIANNA FÁIL in danger of becoming the party of the environment? The wonders... Read more »

DENIS NAUGHTEN ABANDONS CLIMATE ACTION

March 23, 2017
IS DENIS Naughten now Ireland’s Minister for Not Telling People What To Do? The... Read more »

NAUGHTEN’S FUTILE ‘AMBASSADORS’

March 9, 2017
DENIS NAUGHTEN is appointing “climate action ambassadors” in every county as part of a... Read more »

NOT-SO-WISE FOOD PLAN

February 23, 2017
CLIMATE DENIER Scott Pruitt was confirmed this month to head the US Environment Protection... Read more »

FRACKING: TO BAN OR NOT TO BAN?

February 9, 2017
THE Times of India described the Dáil’s progress of the bill as “historic”, while... Read more »