“It is a genuine shame that the Council have seen fit to disregard all of this and proceed over the heartfelt and informed objections of thousands of people,” she said
Credit to the Irish Farmer’s Journal, for this scoop, and to their reporter, Declan O’Brien. You can read the full article here, if you have a subscription. But the basics are easy enough to understand: The ineffectiveness of Government efforts to cut carbon emissions by curtailing Irish livestock numbers has been exposed by forecasts of […]
How can you be wrong this many times and still have credibility?
In response to the latest IPCC Report, the Green Party issued a statement on 9th August 2021 saying that, “Time is running out, and we must take action now”. If it seems like the Green Party has been using consistent language about IPCC Reports for many years, that’s because the Green Party has been using consistent language about […]
Jon Williams, the Managing Director of RTÉ News, has apologised for RTÉ’s reporting of climate change, saying that the broadcaster was wrong not to more strongly link extreme weather, such as the recent heatwave across Ireland, with climate change. This is despite Williams having previously pointed out, correctly, that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […]
Data centres, much like cars, air conditioning, farting cows, home heating, air travel, global shipping, and making anything out of wood, are fast becoming a bete noir for Ireland’s climate movement, summed up by an official denunciation of the fast-growing sector in the pages of the Irish Times yesterday, penned by Una Mullally. Here is […]
The author is a senior executive working in the energy sector in Ireland whose identity is known to Gript. We have agreed to provide him anonymity so that he can speak freely. As our inexorable march towards an all wind and solar electricity system gathers pace the island of Ireland is careering towards a winter […]
Credit where it is due, Michael McDowell has never feared being unpopular. Which is just as well, because his article for the Irish Times yesterday asks some questions that will be unpopular with the Government: Practically no one has articulated the reservation that it may not make sense for Ireland to be in the frontline […]
Senator Michael McDowell has said complying with climate change must not “become an absolute religion” and that Ireland cannot become “some kind of green equivalent of an Islamic republic in pursuit of some purist idea.” Speaking on the Climate Bill, the former Justice Minister also said that the desire of the Green Party to ensure […]
The ESB has confirmed that it is working on plans to demolish its power plant sites at Shannonbridge in West Offaly and Lough Ree in Lanesborough in order to construct “renewable energy centres.” The semi-state company say the demolition works will assist the State in reaching its emission reduction goals by 2030. The move has […]
Governments love to talk up renewable energy, describing it as green and low-carbon and the way of the future. They pump huge amounts of funding into it, and, in this country, are shutting down peat production and promising to leave carbon fuels like oil and gas in the ground, because they claim energy from wind […]
The Joint Committee on Environment and Climate Action has published its Report on Reducing emissions in the transport sector by 51% by 2030. The Report contains almost 50 recommendations. Among them is a call on Government to examine the possibility of introducing a new ‘charges’ regime for road users that would include setting ‘potential targets […]