Article Category: Fowl Emissions

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. Such... 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 Day... 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 local,... 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 (EIB),... 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 climate... 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 a... 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 below... 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 down... 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 on... 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 Agriculture... 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 few... 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 to... 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 to... 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 the... 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 a... 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 now... 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 even... 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 climate... 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 areas,... 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 himself... 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 by... 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 clear... 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 carbon... 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 pony-riding... 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 roll... Read more »

ECO WARRIORS OF DESTINY

April 5, 2017
IS FIANNA FÁIL in danger of becoming the party of the environment? The wonders of new politics have allowed grassroots campaigners to arm-twist Micheál... Read more »

DENIS NAUGHTEN ABANDONS CLIMATE ACTION

March 23, 2017
IS DENIS Naughten now Ireland’s Minister for Not Telling People What To Do? The recently published draft National Mitigation Plan (NMP) is a 91-page... Read more »

NAUGHTEN’S FUTILE ‘AMBASSADORS’

March 9, 2017
DENIS NAUGHTEN is appointing “climate action ambassadors” in every county as part of a new “national dialogue on climate change” he launched in Dublin’s... Read more »

NOT-SO-WISE FOOD PLAN

February 23, 2017
CLIMATE DENIER Scott Pruitt was confirmed this month to head the US Environment Protection Agency. When working as Oklahoma’s attorney general, he took more... Read more »

FRACKING: TO BAN OR NOT TO BAN?

February 9, 2017
THE Times of India described the Dáil’s progress of the bill as “historic”, while Russia Today recorded “an important moment in the history of... Read more »

DONALD TRUMP’S CLIMATE CREED

January 25, 2017
THE Trump presidency has become reality and with it eight years of American leadership on global efforts to curb the ever-worsening impacts of climate... Read more »

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 »