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Some key takeaways on Ireland’s energy challenges.

30 March 2022  The Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Environment and Climate Action has been holding hearings recently all around energy challenges we currently face.  Yesterday, the Committee heard from the Commission for the Regulations of Utilities (CRU), Friends of the Earth Ireland and Global Witness – and there were Read more…

By Kayle Crosson, 12 months ago
Feature

What’s going on with gas prices right now?

9 March 2022  As devastating images and stories continue to emerge from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the European Commission has begun to rethink its energy policy and security.  Currently, the bloc as a whole depends on Russia for 40 per cent of its gas supply, but just yesterday the Read more…

By Kayle Crosson, 1 year ago
Gasfields in Wyoming Photo: The Wilderness Society / Peter Aengst
Climate Change

Gas imports from US worse than coal, climate expert

October 9th, 2019 A US climate expert has called on the Irish Government to ban the importation of liquefied natural gas (LNG) from his country that would have an even greater emissions footprint than coal. Speaking via video-link at a hearing of the Climate Action Committee today on the potential Read more…

By Niall Sargent, 3 yearsOctober 9, 2019 ago
Climate Change

MEPs call on Commission to refuse support for Shannon LNG

October 3rd, 2019. Irish MEPs have sent a letter to the European Commission calling on it to reject all Irish gas projects on a special energy list that they say will encourage the importation of fracked US gas. Ireland is expected to push for the continued inclusion of a planned Read more…

By Niall Sargent, 3 yearsOctober 3, 2019 ago
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