December 21st, 2018 A new nine-metre sinkhole has been found in Co Monaghan close to where a 100-meter sized sinkhole opened up September. The hole was found on land owned by Gyproc, an Irish plaster and plasterboard manufacturer that owns the disused Drumgossatt mine underneath that area of land. Yesterday evening, Monaghan County Council Read more…
13 December 2018: Ireland continues to face an uphill challenge to reduce fossil fuels reliance across transport, heating and electricity, the Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland (SEAI) has warned. Findings in the SEAI’s latest Energy in Ireland report shows that over 90 per cent of all energy used in the Read more…
December 3rd, 2018 All three coal-fired units at ESB’s Moneypoint power station have been out of action for the past two months due to a forced outage at the Co Clare facility. Moneypoint is one of Ireland’s largest generating stations with a total generation capacity of 915MW, making up over Read more…
November 8th, 2018 The Green Party has launched a Just Transition Bill to encourage a move to a sustainable, climate-friendly economy “as quickly and as fairly as possible”, the party’s leader said yesterday. The Just Transition concept calls for a swift move away from a fossil fuel economy to a Read more…
October 8th, 2018 Over the past week, opposition parties launched their alternative budget proposals, with the housing crisis taking centre stage, as well as proposals for spending on the likes of healthcare, education and other public services. With the media focus firmly on what Budget 2019 will look like for Read more…
September 26th, 2018 The proposed development of a liquefied natural gas terminal in the Shannon Estuary flies in the face of the State’s commitment to tackling climate change, the Oireachtas has heard. Speaking on the Dail floor last week, People Before Profit’s Brid Smith questioned how the proposed Shannon LNG Read more…
September 21st, 2018 The Oireachtas environment committee has rejected calls to summon the ESB to appear before it over its importation of millions of tons of coal from a Colombian mine linked to human rights and environmental abuses. In a letter sent this week, four development and environmental NGOs – Read more…
August 29th, 2018 Environmental organisations in 13 countries have urged the Irish state to refuse to buy renewable energy credits generated from burning wood alongside oil shale in Estonian power stations. In a letter sent to the Government this week, 29 groups including An Taisce outlined Estonian plans to allow Read more…
August 21st, 2018 An environmental NGO has asked the European Commission to investigative the Irish Government’s decision to subsidise large-scale biomass burning at its peat-fired power stations. In letters to the European Commissioner for Climate Action, Miguel Arias Cañete, and Agriculture Commissioner, Phil Hogan, Friends of the Irish Environment claims that the subsidy undermines Ireland’s commitments to Read more…
August 20th, 2018 Farmers in the UK and across continental Europe have been able to avail of opportunities from renewable energy for several years now. Meanwhile, it has been frustrating to watch the extremely slow progress made to date on climate and energy in Ireland as policies take an excessive Read more…
