Article Category: Fowl Emissions

EYE ON THE WORLD

February 22, 2023

IRELAND’S LONGEST-running environmental TV programme, Eco Eye, bowed out this month after a 21-year run. With the climate and biodiversity crisis deepening by... Read more »

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DAVID HORGAN’S HOT AIR

February 22, 2023

They say it’s best to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt. Petrel Resources chair... Read more »

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FAR-RIGHT ECO MILITANTS

February 9, 2023

“BUILDING RESILIENT communities” is the tagline for Think Local, a one-day conference at the Shearwater Hotel in Ballinasloe later this month that claims... Read more »

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ED BROPHY’S LOBBYING

February 9, 2023

IT’S SURELY a sign of a very persuasive lobbyist if the person being lobbied ditches their government job and steps through the revolving... Read more »

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‘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.... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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.... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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,... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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