RYAN VS MARTIN
July 2, 2020
It seems oddly appropriate that, as the heated internal debates within the Green Party on entering coalition approached boiling point, a wave of extreme... Read more »
RYAN VS MARTIN
Fowl Emissions
Article Category: Fowl Emissions
BARRY COWEN AND THE FARMERS
July 2, 2020
While few in environmental circles will have mourned the departure of Michael Creed from the agriculture ministry, the appointment of Offaly TD and former... Read more »
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, but... Read more »
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 Ahern’s... 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 of... 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 which... 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 the... 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 a... 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 “red... 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 days,... 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 no... 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 storm.... 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 the... 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 that... 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 (GNI).... 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 Leo... 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 Prince... 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, but... 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 terminal... 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 rather... 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 (CCAC),... 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 climate... 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. Speaking... 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 latest... 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. And,... 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 UN... 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, but... 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 are... 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 son... 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 Hollywood... 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 natural... 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 that... 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 recent... 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 that... 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 collapse.... 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 bloody-mindedness.... Read more »