Article Category: Fowl Emissions

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 corporation that... 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 Commissioners... 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 to... 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. Last... 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 to... 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 praised... 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 biodiversity,... 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.” So... 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 to... 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 and... 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 Looney,... 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 the... 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 David... 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 to... 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 door... 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. “This... 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 have... 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 been... 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. This... 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 mitigate... 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 the... 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 oil... 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 TDs.... 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, Big... 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 of... 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 who... 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 centres... 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 moment... 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 or... Read more »

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LIZ TRUSS’S FOSSIL FUEL FRIENDS

September 22, 2022
LIZ TRUSS didn’t waste much time in coming good for the fossil fuel donors who helped fund her Tory leadership campaign. Two days after... Read more »

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NET ZERO BIG ZERO

September 22, 2022
OIL GIANT Shell’s much-advertised commitment to a pathway to “net zero” emissions actually “has nothing to do with our business plans”, according to an... Read more »

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POISONOUS DEBATE

September 8, 2022
THE IRISH agricultural sector only recently signed up to challenging 25% cuts in overall emissions by 2030. Since the overwhelming bulk of these emissions... Read more »

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DAMIEN O’REILLY’S EMISSIONS

September 8, 2022
ALSO CONCERNED about the tenor of the agri debate is Damien O’Reilly, presenter of Countrywide on RTÉ and columnist with the Irish Farmers Journal,... Read more »

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BIG DATA, BIG EMISSIONS

August 25, 2022
“DATA CENTRES have a lot of roof space so installing solar panels on the top of their facilities could help make them energy self-sufficient.”... Read more »

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METAVERSE’S MEGA DEMANDS

August 25, 2022
THE METAVERSE is Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s science-fiction fantasy, his vision for an always connected virtual world that will exist in parallel to our... Read more »

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