Article Category: Fowl Emissions

PERVERSE EU POLICY

January 12, 2017
ON CHRISTMAS Day police in Sydney pulled off the largest cocaine bust in Australian history, seizing 500kg of the drug from a boat and... Read more »

TCD GOES WITH THE FLOW

December 14, 2016
WHEN a student society at Trinity College declared last month it was “standing in solidarity” with Native American protestors blocking an oil pipeline in... Read more »

POST TRUMP CLIMATE

December 1, 2016
THE VICTORY of Donald Trump in the US election is bad news on many fronts with the Republican Party scrambling to make America great... Read more »

FRACKING: WHAT’S IN A NAME?

November 3, 2016
ANTI-FRACKING campaigners are not quite sure whether it’s too soon to celebrate – Clare Daly warned those gathered at the Dáil last week not... Read more »

NAUGHTEN’S CHALLENGE

October 20, 2016
THE IRISH public could be forgiven for concluding that the term climate action has something to do with funding RTÉ. After all, since the... Read more »

JOHN FITZGERALD DISAPPOINTS

October 5, 2016
THE great and good of Ireland’s environment world were treated to a bewildering double act last month that laid bare the gaping chasm between,... Read more »

IRELAND EXPORTS FRACKING OPS

September 21, 2016
IRELAND HAS been mostly quiet on the fracking front, but last month Goldhawk’s attention was caught by reports of an Irish company having to... Read more »

KENNY TRUMPS CLIMATE ACCORD

September 7, 2016
DONALD TRUMP is probably not the first name that springs to mind when major international breakthroughs in tackling climate change are being discussed. The... Read more »

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 »