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national / environment Friday January 17, 2020 - 22:01 by foie
Release of Biomass Power Station records halted €474 million in public money depended on Commissioner for Energy Regulator decision The release of documentation concerning the Commissioner for Energy Regulation’s [CER] decision not to renew a 100% certificate of High Efficiency to Mayo Renewable Power Supply Ltd. for a proposed €255m high-efficiency biomass combined heat and power plant [HE CHP] in Killala, County Mayo was halted at the last moment by the Commissioner for Environmental Information [CEI]. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Friday January 17, 2020 - 18:03 by Kate Zeller
IMF Head Kristalina Georgieva warns of a return of the Great Depression driven by inequality and financial sector instability in a speech delivered at the Peterson Institute of International Economics. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Wednesday January 08, 2020 - 10:58 by foie
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Turf cutting on protected raised bogs reported to the European Commission. 22 of Ireland’s 53 protected bogs still being openly cut breaching EU law Ireland’s failure to protect the 53 bogs designated for protection under the Habitats Directive in 1997 has been reported to Virginijus Sinkevicius, the newly appointed Director General for Environment. [1] ... read full story / add a comment
limerick / miscellaneous Monday December 30, 2019 - 10:01 by David Lamont
Rathkeale, small Limerick town, is first in Ireland to adopt the American Challenge Coin concept to thank 52 of its citizens for making it a better place to be and to encourage others to lend a helping hand. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday December 22, 2019 - 22:26 by foie
An environmental group has issued a ‘Call to Arms’ targeting the Government’s newly published Housing and Planning and Development Bill 2019, recently opened for Public Consultation. The Bill, which imposes restrictions on citizens bringing Judicial Reviews of planning decisions, has been in part triggered by delays in the planning system leading to the withdrawal of plans for Apple at Athenry and the referral to the European Court of Justice of the US New Fortress Energy Shannon LNG terminal as well as a number of cases taken by environmental campaigner Peter Sweetman. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Saturday December 21, 2019 - 15:12 by Kate Zeller
President Trump signed a year-end spending bill which authorizes the first phase of debt relief for Somalia. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday December 18, 2019 - 21:55 by Kate Zeller
As part of the Federal government's year-end spending package or "minibus," Congress passed the first phase of debt relief for Somalia. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Sunday December 15, 2019 - 23:21 by foie
N11 Improvement Scheme ‘undermines Climate Action Plan 2019’ Promised ‘deep level of collaboration across government’ absent from road considerations In a submission to the public consultation on the N11/M11 Junction 4 to Junction 14 Improvement Scheme, Friends of the Irish Environment claims the proposal undermines the ‘Climate Action Plan 2019’ requirement for a ‘deep level of collaboration across government’. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Thursday December 12, 2019 - 21:39 by Kate Zeller
More than 80 national religious bodies and local churches, synagogues and Muslim groups sent a letter to the Senate urging passage of the ILLICIT CASH Act (S.2563) and the Corporate Transparency Act (S.1978). ... read full story / add a comment
People Before Profit TD says Dáil debate on housing solutions should receive as much media attention as No Confidence drama Grass-roots housing protest in Dublin today demands urgent solutions to housing and homeless crisis In a statement, Richard Boyd Barrett TD for People Before Profit said the Dáil debate on housing solutions should receive as much media attention as the Dáil no confidence debate in the housing minister earlier this week. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Friday November 29, 2019 - 21:46 by foie
Award-winning group calls for scrapping of proposed planning restrictions Justice must be ‘free, full, and speedy’ An award-winning environmental group has called for citizens to oppose the recently published Planning Bill 2019 which imposes further restrictions on the ability of citizens’ groups to bring legal actions before the Irish Courts. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday November 12, 2019 - 22:29 by foie
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Industrial peat extraction at risk as EU Court triples fines requested by Commission Ongoing weekly fine of €100,005 by EU Court highlights ‘a matter of indisputable seriousness’ An angry European Court of Justice ruled today that Ireland’s conduct shows that it has ‘not acted in accordance with its duty of sincere cooperation to put an end to the failure to fulfil obligations’ under the EU Directive on Environmental Assessment. The Judgment arose out of the failure to conduct an Environmental Impact Assessment for a windfarm in Derrybrien County Galway that led to a massive landslide on October 16, 2003 during which tonnes of peat were dislodged, polluting the Owendalulleegh River and killing 50,000 fish. ... read full story / add a comment
national / politics / elections Thursday November 07, 2019 - 18:03 by pbp
On Wednesday a Solidarity- People Before Profit Dáil motion will be debated to unblock over 50 opposition bills currently stuck in limbo because of the governments use of what is called ‘The Money Message’. The motion which will be debated in the Dáil on November 6th would change current standing orders that govern the progress of opposition bills. This motion will recognise the right of the Government of the day to have control, over the appropriation of public monies but it will stop the misuse of the constitutional clause that standing orders is based on. It will remove the use of incidental expenses and indirect costs of implementing a Bill from the reasons that the Government can impose a ‘Money Message’. ... read full story / add a comment 
Councilors from Fianna Fail, Green Party, Labour and Social Democrats have agreed to give land at O Devaney Gardens to Bartra Capital. O Devaney Gardens was a working class flat complex on the edge of the Phoenix Park. For decades, it was run down by Dublin City Council and requests by tenants for proper maintenance were ignored. Dublin City Council officials typically neglect inner city housing complexes in the hope that they can eventually move out the residents and turn them into posh private apartments. The Fianna Fail-Green-Labour–Social Democrat coalition that run Dublin City Council complied with this disgraceful strategy. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Tuesday November 05, 2019 - 17:43 by foie
LEADING ENVIRONMENT GROUPS OPPOSE €7m DURSEY ISLAND MASS TOURISM PROJECT Wild Atlantic Way ‘undermining quality and experience of Ireland’s wild coastal landscape’ An €7m Failte Ireland flagship project has attracted the opposition of three of Ireland’s leading environmental organisations. An Taisce, Birdwatch Ireland, and Friends of the Irish Environment have all submitted extensive objections to the application by Cork County in partnership with Fáilte Ireland to An Bord Pleanala for a €7m development on Dursey Island off the west Cork coast. The current 6-person cable car is to be replaced by a state-of-the-art two-way cable car system capable of carrying up to 300 people each way every hour. The project includes an extensive Visitor Centre with restaurant and gift shop on the mainland. ... read full story / add a comment
Sinn Féin Housing spokesperson Eoin Ó Broin has commented on the publication of the Department of Housing’s official homeless figures for September, which show for the 8th month in a row the number of people in homeless accommodation is over 10,000. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment Monday October 21, 2019 - 10:19 by foe
Minister urged to intervene to protect birds from €7m Dursey Island tourism development Bird Study shows 30% decline in protected choughs Minister for Arts, Culture, and the Gaeltachta Josepha Madigan, TD, has been asked to intervene on the proposed Dursey Island Cable Car and Visitor Centre Project in west Cork. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Wednesday October 16, 2019 - 18:31 by Kate Zeller
The International Monetary Fund warns of growing financial instability as a result of high debts and risky investing in the release of the IMF 2019 Global Financial Stability Report. The report raised fears that developing countries are borrowing too much. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday October 13, 2019 - 23:01 by 1 of indy
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Comrades, The integrity and life of our comrades in Ecuador are at risk in the face of the repressive offensive of the government We need you -especially those who live in the countries of the global north- to help to spread the situation. There is this last minute press release from one of the community media that is covering locally in Quito together with our own comrades of Indymedia Ecuador (spanish): ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Thursday October 10, 2019 - 22:09 by foie
UK Nuclear plant ‘delaying transition to renewable energy’ £2.9 billion increase in cost since 2017 ‘sucking up’ funds from sustainable developments The environmental charity Friends of the Irish Environment [FIE] have highlighted the rising cost and delays in construction of the new UK nuclear plant, Hinkley C, as ‘sucking up funds from sustainable developments’ and ‘delaying transition to renewable energy’. FIE made a site visit last week to the nuclear construction site on the Severn Estuary in Somerset as a follow up to their complaint to the Espoo Convention on Environmental Impact Assessment in a Transboundary Context which led to public consultation by the UK Government on the proposed plant being extended to the Irish Republic. [1] ... read full story / add a comment |
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