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Fowl Emissions

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 »

CROKE PARK HOT AIR

April 20, 2022
“MORAL AND economic madness,” is how UN secretary general António Guterres recently described investing in new fossil fuel infrastructure. Don’t tell the speakers at... Read more »

OLIGARCH OLEG’S IRISH LOBBYISTS

April 20, 2022
RUSSIAN OLIGARCH Oleg Deripaska, a friend and arms supplier to Vladimir Putin, was playing cat and mouse last weekend in a bid to hold... Read more »

BURN, BABY, BURN

April 7, 2022
“WE HAD to destroy the village in order to save it”. This quote was famously attributed to a US commander during the Vietnam war... Read more »

TIM CULLINAN’S PIGS

April 7, 2022
‘SAVE OUR bacon’ read the signs outside Dáil Éireann recently, as pig farmers protested over rising feed and fuel costs. Led by IFA president... Read more »

‘SHOCK DOCTRINE’

March 24, 2022
THIS YEAR’S Census form includes a box in which you can send a message to people 100 years in the future. The question of... Read more »

MARK FOLEY’S ENERGY TIPS

March 24, 2022
“PLEASE TAKE energy conservation seriously,” tweeted EirGrid CEO Mark Foley this week as he described the energy reductions he achieves by dropping his speed... Read more »

‘DEMONISING MEAT’

March 10, 2022
IT ISN’T often that a letter published in a specialist medical journal prompts a press release from the Irish Farmers Association (IFA) and two... Read more »

DIAMONDS ARE FOREVER

February 24, 2022
FOR YEARS oil executive David Horgan has enjoyed a side gig as one of the media’s favourite pundits, thanks in part to a sort... Read more »

RICHARD BRUTON’S HOT AIR

February 22, 2022
IN 2019, Ireland was on the cusp of a “rooftop revolution”. Minister Richard Bruton’s Climate Action Plan promised that by the end of that... Read more »

JOE DUFFY AND GRETA THUNBERG

February 10, 2022
COMMON SENSE, as Albert Einstein put it, is “the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen”. Joe Duffy, 66, the voice of the people,... Read more »

ÉANNA NÍ LÉANNA’S ENDORSEMENT

February 10, 2022
GREENWASHING EFFORTS by fossil fuel interests aimed at kids have gone into overdrive. Fuel retailer Applegreen has jumped on the bandwagon with a new... Read more »

FITZGERALD LOOKS UP

January 27, 2022
NETFLIX VIEWING records were broken this month by ‘Don’t Look Up’, a meteorite disaster movie that brilliantly satirises political and media indifference to the threat of... Read more »

NOT SO GREEN HYDROGEN

January 27, 2022
“A WORLD first that would make Australia a global leader,” was how Australian prime minister Scott Morrison described a historic shipment of liquid hydrogen... Read more »

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 »