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An environmental group has accused the Department of the Environment of suppressing a damming report on the contamination at Haulbowline Island which the Department itself commissioned. The Report, dated 2 July 2008 and produced by NRGE, Nutrient Recovery to Energy Generation, a consultancy in Co. Tipperary, is the result of samples taken from the sides of 15 trial pits excavated by a mechanical excavator during May, 2008. Samples showed that levels of lead in the [...]
FIE has urged the Irish Government to support the proposed EU fisheries reforms ahead of tommorows’ meeting in Brussels. The proposals will reduce the administrative costs for operators by 51% – the time spent filling in the logbook should be reduced by almost 70%, as the fishermen will only need to fill in the catch data. A comprehensive traceability system so that all fish and fisheries products can be tracked throughout the market chain will [...]
Report by Feasta. Any NGO going to a UN climate conference in the hope of influencing the outcome is extremely optimistic. In essence, these conferences are two events – a climate ideas trade show and a series of meetings between government ministers, advisers and officials – going on in the same building at the same time. There is very little contact between them. All the serious negotiation goes on behind closed doors. So it was [...]
The Institute of International and European Affairs are hosting a conference on the 9th January 2009 on the subject of greening agriculture, in particular the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture. The conference will take place in Dublin Castle and I attach the brochure with the relevant information for this conference for your convenience. Download Brochure
Comhar SDC has published the final report on a personal carbon trading scheme known as “Cap and Share”. Under the scheme, a cap is set each year on the amount of greenhouse gas emissions and all adults would then receive certificates entitling them to an equal share of the emissions permitted under that year’s cap. Citizens would be compensated for the additional fuel costs they would face as a result of the cap on carbon [...]
Interested in teaching your class about the Marine Environment and Marine Wildlife such as Seals? The Irish Seal Sanctuary provide an education programme for Primary Schools and Transition Year and CSPE Secondary School classes on the marine environment and the welfare of wildlife focusing on our work of Rescue, Rehabilitation and Release of Seals and other sea life. Available to all Primary School Levels and Age Groups are classrooms based visual presentations and excursion activities [...]
Report by Molly Walsh, Friends of the Earth 1. Do you think that FoEI was well-prepared for Poznan? Process before Poznan I felt like personally, I was not well enough prepared for Poznan. FOE Ireland had never sent anyone to a COP before so there was no experience within my organisation for me to draw on. Perhaps a two page briefing document on the COP process and what to expect would be useful for FOEI [...]
There’s still time to register for Young Environmentalist Awards 2009. ECO-UNESCO is extending the deadline to Friday 12 December, giving young people an extra two weeks to develop a project for environmental awareness. ECO-UNESCO, Ireland’s environmental education and youth organisation, is celebrating 10 years of its Young Environmentalist Awards programme and is inviting all young people aged between 12 and 18 years old to celebrate this special date by carrying out an environmental action project [...]
The Irish Wildlife Trust would like to respond to comments by Councillor Donal Grady of Kerry County Council as reported in today’s Irish Examiner and Irish Independent where he stated that “We’ve almost 600 people on the waiting list in Killarney, and to house bats before humans beggars belief”. The Councillor’s comments related to the €60,000 spent to refurbish a building in Killarney National Park for Lesser Horseshoe Bats – a protected species in Ireland [...]
Ireland foot-dragging in Brussels as UN talks open in Poland As a new round of UN talks on climate change open today in Poznan, Poland, Friends of the Earth has accused the Government of being in denial about Ireland’s responsibility to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The environmental charity says Ireland is dragging its feet in EU negotiations that will help determine whether a global deal to contain climate change can be agreed in time. Friends [...]
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