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GAS IS ‘GOOD’ FOR YOU

January 13, 2022
THE CONSERVATIVE International Energy Agency (IEA) created headlines worldwide last May when it effectively signalled the end of the fossil fuel era by stating... Read more »

FRANK MITLOEHNER’S CAMEO

January 13, 2022
THE LIVESTOCK industry has come under sustained fire for its oversized contribution to deforestation, surging methane emissions and for fuelling global food insecurity. Just... Read more »

GREAT GAS

December 16, 2021
“A SHORT-term fix for that technology gap we have that needs to be plugged right at this point in time,” was how Climate Change... Read more »

JOE DUFFY ‘MAROONED’

December 16, 2021
“WE ARE now global citizens, in it together,” broadcaster Joe Duffy told the Irish Times in a short interview about his Christmas plans. It... Read more »

FOR PEAT’S SAKE, REGINA

December 2, 2021
FOR AT least the last decade, Fine Gael has made little secret of its disdain for climate and environmental issues. Lately, sensing a shift... Read more »

CIARÁN CUFFE’S QUERY

December 2, 2021
NOBODY DIALS up the instant outrage quite as often or as theatrically as the Irish Farmers Association. The lobby outfit turned its latest fit... Read more »

BIG OIL’S COP-OUT

November 4, 2021
SPARE A thought for ‘big oil’. Having sponsored COP climate summits down through the years, they have suddenly lost access to this prime vehicle... Read more »

COP26’S ‘PARTNERS’

November 4, 2021
“EVERYTHING FEELS very last minute.” This was the verdict on the COP26 summit in a joint letter of complaint sent last May to the... Read more »

MEDIA COPS OUT

October 21, 2021
WITH THE crunch COP 26 global climate conference in Glasgow kicking off at the end of the month, various media organisations have been burnishing... Read more »

FARMING SUPPLEMENTS

October 21, 2021
WHO WOULD have guessed the Irish Farmers Association would be lobbying for more carbon taxes on road transport and aviation? The lobby group took... Read more »

O’DOWD AND LEDDIN’S DATA FREE DEBATE

October 7, 2021
WHY WASTE good money paying former politicians as lobbyists if serving politicians will make the same case for free? On RTÉ’s Drivetime last week... Read more »

‘GOOD’ GAS CRISIS

October 7, 2021
NOT EVERYBODY is worried about energy blackouts – it’s great news for fossil fuels. Not only are Ireland’s coal and oil-burning power plants getting a... Read more »

TRILLIONS WASTED IN CLIMATE ACTION

September 23, 2021
EARLIER THIS year, the European Court of Auditors reported that, despite spending more than €100bn of EU agriculture funds on climate action projects in... Read more »

MET ÉIREANN’S NEW FORECAST

September 23, 2021
SOME YEARS back, Met Éireann was regularly in the firing line for its curious reluctance to engage in any way with climate change and... Read more »

MCCARTHY’S CLOUDY THINKING

September 9, 2021
DURING HIS only term as a TD for Cork South-West, Labour’s Michael McCarthy was chair of the oireachtas environment committee. When he lost his... Read more »

WES EDENS’S GREENWASHING

September 9, 2021
AMID ALL the climate doom and gloom, a sunbeam of hope appeared in the southwest recently with news of a project that “will help... Read more »

FAKE METHANE

August 26, 2021
The recent publication by the Intergovernmental Panel (IPCC) of its hard-hitting Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) has sent Irish lobbyists into a tailspin of panic,... Read more »

GREEN LIGHT FOR ENNIS’S ‘CODE RED’ DATA CENTRE?

August 12, 2021
“THE SAME as having a goldmine,” was how former Fianna Fáil councillor Tom McNamara described the vast data centre Clare County Council wants to... Read more »

THE DELANEYS’ DATA CENTRE

August 12, 2021
BUILDING AND running a data centre is a complicated business. So it’s just as well the directors of the company applying to build Ennis... Read more »

RTÉ’S CHANGEABLE CLIMATE REPORTAGE

July 29, 2021
IT’S BEEN an unusually bruising time for RTÉ managing director of news Jon Williams, culminating in his online mea culpa this week over the... Read more »

FARMERS’ “POSITIVE TRENDS”

July 29, 2021
“IT’S THE way I tell ’em!” The famous Frank Carson catch-cry came to mind when reading various versions of a recent Environmental Protection Agency... Read more »

MCDOWELL RANTS

July 15, 2021
WAS MICHAEL McDowell feeling a bit left out as the media frenzy grew around last week’s byelection in his old stomping ground? A week... Read more »

RTE’S CLIMATE CONCERNS

July 15, 2021
THE REASONS for RTÉ’s failure to accurately cover climate change have long been a mystery, but it’s hard not to conclude that one or... Read more »

AN TAISCE ‘TREASON’

July 1, 2021
“WE WOULD like to acknowledge your important intervention on the matter of the challenge by an Taisce to the planning permission for the proposed cheese plant at... Read more »

SINDO’S SF HEADACHE

July 1, 2021
MEDIATION BETWEEN an aggrieved Derry woman and the Sindo over claims that the newspaper published incorrect assertions about her is due to take place... Read more »

ZERO AND COUNTING

June 17, 2021
OCCASIONALLY THERE comes along an example of greenwash so ludicrous that satire is redundant. Five oil majors who extract from Canada’s vast environmental black... Read more »

ENERGY BRINK

June 17, 2021
IT’S POPULAR to blame renewable energy for electricity blackouts or the threat of same. Last winter the governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, said a... Read more »

TIM CULLINAN’S MINIMUM TARGET

June 3, 2021
THE COMMON Agriculture Policy “is a tumour in the EU’s body politic”. This is the considered view of the distinctly right-of centre Economist magazine,... Read more »

OIL INDUSTRY SURRENDERS?

June 3, 2021
FOR DECADES, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has been the de facto voice of the global fossil fuel industry. Just last July, it warned... Read more »

ROUND UP THE USUAL LOBBYISTS

May 20, 2021
THE REVELATION that two of our national institutions – Guinness stout and chef Darina Allen – tested positive for glyphosate, the chemical in Roundup... Read more »

AN TAISCE’S MEDIA DETRACTORS

May 20, 2021
POLITICAL CORRESPONDENTS mostly do a good job of presenting themselves as objective, analysing the political fray from on high. But occasionally it gets so... Read more »

ROUND UP THE USUAL LOBBYISTS

May 20, 2021
THE REVELATION that two of our national institutions – Guinness stout and chef Darina Allen – tested positive for glyphosate, the chemical in Roundup... Read more »

AN TAISCE’S MEDIA DETRACTORS

May 20, 2021
POLITICAL CORRESPONDENTS mostly do a good job of presenting themselves as objective, analysing the political fray from on high. But occasionally it gets so... Read more »

‘NATIONAL’ DAIRY COUNCIL’S PR FROTH

May 6, 2021
IS IT a sign of growing confidence or blind panic that Ireland’s dairy industry has just unveiled yet another major marketing blitz to woo... Read more »

‘EXAMINER’ SEES RED ON GREEN COLUMN

April 22, 2021
IT’S ALWAYS a little embarrassing when a newspaper removes an opinion column from its online edition after publication. Embarrassing both for the journalist and... Read more »

WES EDEN’S NEXT ATTEMPT?

April 22, 2021
THE GOVERNMENT is irrelevant. That seemed to be a High Court message recently, when Judge Garrett Simons agreed with barristers for Eamon Ryan’s department... Read more »