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Charlie McConalogue Citizens’ Assembly Biodiversity

‘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 »

Richard Boyd-Barrett Kish Dale Crammond Frank Mitloehner Shell Greenwashing Meta Data Centres Ireland

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 »

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 »

Data Centre Carbon Emissions Conor Skehan Chris Hazzard

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Ireland Livestock Emissions Martin Heydon

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Charlie McConalogue Irish Agricultural Emissions

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 »

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 »

Tom McNamara Data Centre Emissions Ireland

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 »

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 »

SF’S HAZZARD WARNING

August 11, 2022
“If I had a De Lorean, I’d go back in time and ban sheep and sitka spruce.” The would-be time traveller is south Down... Read more »

Frank Mitloehner Irish Farmers’ Association Emissions

JUST BECAUSE YOU’RE PARANOID…

August 11, 2022
DID YOU know that attempts at regulating agriculture pollution are really part of a sinister globalist plot being co-ordinated by communists under the guise... Read more »

CYANIDE WASHING?

July 28, 2022
On Richard Bruton’s watch as environment minister a brave new era of mining opportunities was launched, sparking a surge in licensing that has continued... Read more »

EAMON RYAN’S GOLD-MINERS

July 28, 2022
A battle royal looms in North Leitrim as the farmers and other campaigners who saw off Canadian fracking company Tamboran Resources, and precipitated the... Read more »

ECO ROVER

July 14, 2022
The Irish Times recently reported on the painful dressing down delivered to Land Rover for its advertorial featuring gardener Diarmuid Gavin in his hulking “sustainable” two-and-a-half-ton diesel SUV.... Read more »

CULLINANE’S COWS

July 14, 2022
WHAT A topical if misleading article the Irish Times published this week from Irish Farmers’ Association (IFA) president, Tim Cullinane, on the burning issue... Read more »

POLITICS OF FOOD

June 30, 2022
Political tensions are nearing boiling point as FF and FG close ranks in supporting special pleading from the agri-industrial lobby in its demand for... Read more »

THE IRISH NATURE

June 30, 2022
A new European study on ‘nature connectedness’ found that those with high levels of affinity to nature enjoy better mental health and tend to... Read more »

BERTIE’S OLD SPIN DOCTOR

June 16, 2022
OUR PUBLIC sphere is peppered with grumpy old men pontificating inexpertly on climate change, pushing pragmatism and pooh-poohing climate action. Goldhawk fans will be... Read more »

CLIMATE CAMP FIRES

June 16, 2022
“IS IT time to start blowing up pipelines?” That was the incendiary title of a webinar last month, hosted not by a revolutionary guerrilla... Read more »

THE LAND OF MILK , MOOLAH AND FITBITS

June 2, 2022
FOR THE dairy industry, Ireland in recent years has been a land of milk and money. The sector has expanded at breakneck speed since... Read more »

PHONEY CLIMATE WAR

June 2, 2022
ONE OF the more ludicrous aspects of the climate emergency is that the Irish public has been conditioned to think that it can be... Read more »

EAMON RYAN AND BIG TECH’S FREE PASS

May 19, 2022
THERE WAS a distinctly Churchillian, spirit-of-the-Blitz feel to the unveiling by environment minister Eamon Ryan last month of the Energy Security Emergency Group (ESEG),... Read more »

DELOITTE’S COAL CLIENT

May 19, 2022
DELOITTE IRELAND CEO Harry Goddard shared some profound words of wisdom on the subject of corporate climate leadership at the launch of DCU’s Centre... Read more »

VARADKAR WINDS UP PARTY TDs

May 5, 2022
WHILE YOU wouldn’t think it based on the tone of the recent public debate, there is, in fact, a solid majority of Irish people... Read more »

GERRY MURPHY’S FORECAST

May 5, 2022
MET ÉIREANN has been doing some media outreach of late, with forecaster Gerry Murphy in studio with Claire Byrne on RTÉ radio to talk... Read more »