Article Category: Fowl Emissions

NAUGHTEN’S REVERSE PSYCHOLOGY

June 28, 2018

“PLEASE IGNORE the email you received earlier!” It’s a subject line that’s guaranteed to make you go back and actually read the email... Read more »

WHERE’S THE BEEF?

June 13, 2018

FOR YEARS, whiny environmental types have been warning repeatedly that the Irish state is treating its legally binding international obligations to cut our... Read more »

PHIL THE FARMER

May 31, 2018

HAS PHIL “The Fixer” Hogan discarded the green jersey of the Irish farming sector for the tie-dyed T-shirt of environmentalism? As Enda Kenny’s... Read more »

BOG STANDARD RTÉ PROGRAMME

May 17, 2018

“THIS IS the story of Ireland’s best kept secret.” So RTÉ’s Derek Mooney began Turf Life – A Day on the Bog. This... Read more »

WHAT SHELL KNEW

May 3, 2018

When Shell took over Corrib Gas in 2002, it surely did not foresee the resistance that would delay the project for more than... Read more »

POOR CHILLY SODDEN FARMERS

April 19, 2018

CRISIS, what crisis? It seems like only yesterday when our media was awash with heart-rending stories of starving cattle and desperate farmers as... Read more »

PLASTIC PADDIES

April 5, 2018

THE dutiful consumers of Ireland are being enlisted as (polite) eco-warriors for one day this month in the escalating global war against plastic.... Read more »

LEO’S WINDY ‘JOKE’

March 22, 2018

There was much to cringe over in Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s lame attempt to curry favour with US president Donald Trump during his Paddy’s... Read more »

WHEN IS A DECISION NOT A DECISION?

March 8, 2018

WHEN IT comes to getting big dirty fossil fuel infrastructure past the various political and regulatory obstacles, the choral harmony of performers at... Read more »

PIPELINE TIMELINE

March 6, 2018

IN 2016, when Enda Kenny’s economic adviser Andrew McDowell became Ireland’s nominee for the €275,000-a-year job of vice-president of the European Investment Bank... Read more »

MERLIN NAUGHTEN

February 22, 2018

IT’S NO secret that wishful thinking remains the main policy weapon the government deploys when it comes to hitting tough international commitments on... Read more »

Sacred Cows

February 22, 2018

The government’s new national development plan had that “one for everyone in the audience” feel, including a lavish commitment to spending €22bn, or... Read more »

O’Reilly digs deep

February 8, 2018

YOU HAVE to feel sorry for those intrepid oil and gas explorers under constant siege from scientists and campaigners. Oil prices are low... Read more »

Paddy Power’s gas terminal

February 8, 2018

EU countries can burn gas for just nine more years before exhausting their share of the earth’s carbon budget to keep global warming... Read more »

CLIMATE: IT’S GOOD NEWS WEEK!

January 25, 2018

WHEN IT comes to addressing climate change, the twin buzzwords are mitigation and adaptation. Mitigation means doing what the science demands to slow... Read more »

COASTING TO DISASTER

January 11, 2018

AT 1km long, Donald Trump’s Irish wall doesn’t enjoy quite as much global infamy as his Mexican wall. However, Clare County Council’s decision... Read more »

AGRI-PR FAILS TO CONVINCE

December 14, 2017

PHIL HOGAN is about the last person you’d expect to find socking it to Ireland’s agri-food industry, but that’s exactly what the EU’s... Read more »

IRELAND IS THE WORST IN EUROPE

November 30, 2017

BILLS TO ban fossil fuel exploration are like buses: you wait years for one and then two come along at once. Within a... Read more »

UNCONSTITUTIONAL CLIMATE

November 2, 2017

WHEN ALL else fails, take them to court. Yet again, it falls to the poorly supported, barely solvent environmental NGO sector to try... Read more »

IRELAND LEADS FROM REAR

October 19, 2017

When cost to Ireland of Storm Ophelia’s fury is calculated, will that figure feature in future cost/benefit analyses as the Government considers whether... Read more »

CITIZENS’ ASSEMBLY STRIKES AGAIN

October 5, 2017

WHEN politicians want an issue to go away, a favourite ploy is to bury it alive in a talking shop. If that was... Read more »

MONSANTO’S FIGHT FOR ‘ROUNDUP’

September 21, 2017

IF YOUR business is managing reputations, it pays to have well-heeled clients. A case in point is Hume Brophy, whose modest HQ in... Read more »

Fracking : The Irish Way

August 24, 2017

Seán Kelly For Irish problems there are Irish solutions. Women travel abroad for abortions. Neutral Ireland refuels US warplanes at Shannon Airport. And... Read more »

ROSS TO ELECTRIFY TRANSPORT?

August 10, 2017

Shane Ross IS THERE any part of the environmental agenda that Ireland doesn’t have to be dragged kicking and screaming into, to achieve... Read more »

VARADKAR IS NO MACRON

July 27, 2017

Emmanuel Macron A “fundamental societal transformation”. With these words, on the first page of his Government’s (very) long-awaited National Mitigation Plan (NMP) on... Read more »

TRUMP’S IRISH ALLIES

July 13, 2017

DESPITE the efforts of the Trump regime, the international consensus on stepping up action to tackle climate change remains largely intact. In some... Read more »

CLIMATE FRIENDLY LEO VARADKAR?

June 29, 2017

WITHIN hours of receiving his seal of office from Michael D Higgins, our new Taoiseach took the very deliberate step of publicly distancing... Read more »

DUP’S GLOBAL CHILLING

June 15, 2017

NORTHERN Irish politics doesn’t produce many laughs. One of the better ones involved the Democratic Unionist Party’s Sammy Wilson, when interviewed in Belfast... Read more »

VICTIMISED CLIMATE DENIERS

June 2, 2017

FROM the moment Claire Byrne uttered her sulky opening question – “Climate change: should anyone dare to debate the fundamentals?” – it was... Read more »

BATES’S BALI-HOO

May 17, 2017

BACK IN 2007, an international group of respected mainstream scientists co-signed what was known as the Bali Climate Declaration. It warned that global... Read more »

SEAWEED SECRECY

May 3, 2017

THE ADVERTISING gurus who market Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way will soon be able to supplement the romantic imagery of rugged coastline, dolphins and... Read more »

IFA LOSES RAG

April 19, 2017

ARE THE wheels starting to come off Ireland’s most formidable lobbying machine? The IFA’s attack on Fianna Fáil last month for failing to... Read more »