Article Category: Fowl Emissions

CHILLY ENVIRONMENT AT BAI

August 24, 2016
THE Broadcasting Authority of Ireland (BAI) hasn’t been making too many friends in environmental circles lately. This month it delivered a double-whammy of decisions... Read more »

BREXIT IS BAD FOR THE PLANET

July 28, 2016
“A MORE flexible approach to environmental protection” – this Orwellian promise from UK farming minister George Eustice ominously sums up the likely direction of... Read more »

MONSANTO GETS ROUNDUP EXTENSION

July 15, 2016
AS a ‘good week to bury bad news’, the one following the Brexit vote was hard to beat. As it happened, the timing was... Read more »

DUBLIN AIRPORT CLIMATE PICKLE

July 2, 2016
FALLOUT from the Brexit vote may prove something of a gift for the Dublin Airport Authority’s (DAA) ambitious plan to have a second runway... Read more »

BORD NA MÓNA’S ‘GREENWASH’

June 17, 2016
“Almost 1,500 jobs” could be lost if Bord na Móna is prevented from harvesting peat for its Edenderry power plant in Co Offaly. This... Read more »

FRACKING BY ANOTHER NAME

June 1, 2016
“LIKE having a pissing section in a swimming pool,” is how Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan TD described the notion of allowing fracking on only one... Read more »

NAUGHTEN’S SPLIT PERSONALITY

May 18, 2016
HAVING heard Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary calling for cyclists to be shot and Danny Healy-Rae insisting that climate change is God-made, environmentalists could have been... Read more »

BRENDAN GLEESON’S PIPELINE TO RTÉ

May 5, 2016
WITH gas flowing through Shell’s contentious refinery in northwest Mayo since December 30 last, one of the legacies left by the demonisation of those... Read more »

TONY McLOUGHLIN TD AND FRACKING

April 22, 2016
“THE EPA Research Study on Fracking is now stopped,” declared the Good Energies Alliance Ireland (GEAI) on its website on February 3, in what... Read more »

HOW GREEN WILL GOVERNMENT BE?

April 7, 2016
AS talks on forming a government drag on, what hope of an environmentally friendly government? With 2015 the hottest year on record globally, and... Read more »

FRACKING NORTH AND SOUTH

March 24, 2016
THE “end of the fossil fuel era” was the favoured description for December’s historic agreement at the COP21 climate summit in Paris, as nearly... Read more »