5 May 2022 The polls are open today in Northern Ireland for Assembly elections, in case you haven’t heard. It’s a 90-seat legislature and analysts are projecting there’s a real chance of a landmark victory for Sinn Fein if it wins the majority of seats. We won’t know the outcome Read more…
25 May 2021 Demand is continuing to build for an Irish-led global ban on fracking in the wake of a report from the Irish Centre for Human Rights (ICHR). The International Human Rights Impacts of Fracking published yesterday analysed the threats hydraulic fracking poses to the environment, to local populations Read more…
18 May 2021 The Government has issued its highly anticipated policy statement on Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) imports. The statement notably includes a moratorium on the development of fracked gas importation, pending a completed energy security review. The document comes weeks after the Government published its revised Climate Bill, which Read more…
March 6th, 2020 An Irish anti-fracking campaigner joined other activists, healthcare professionals and NGOs in New York this week to meet UN officials over their concerns with the controversial energy source. Joining residents and campaigners from New York and Pennsylvania on Thursday, Eddie Mitchell of Love Leitrim met with Satya Read more…
January 17th, 2020 Phil Hogan has come under fire for describing liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from the US to Europe as a “win-win” for both trading partners. Offering the keynote address at an event in Washington on “refreshing transatlantic relations”, the new European Commissioner for Trade said that the Read more…
December 21st, 2019 A US anti-fracking activist delivered a petition in Cork yesterday against the potential importation of liquefied natural gas from Brownsville Port in South Texas to the Port of Cork. Rebekah Hinojosa, a member of the US anti-fracking group Save Rio Grande Valley from LNG travelled to Ireland Read more…
October 11th, 2019 Extinction Rebellion activists plastered the Department of Climate Action with scientific research on fracking in protest against the State’s support of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal planned for the Shannon Estuary. Around 100 protesters, many dressed in boiler suits, gathered at the Department building on Adelaide Read more…
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…
July 12th, 2019 An Irish environmental group has raised concerns with the Government over possible cross border impacts from proposed fracking operations in the North. Friends of the Irish Environment contacted the Department of Planning last week on the closing day of a public consultation in the North for an Read more…
June 6th, 2019 A new report released today shows that fracked gas exports from the US to Europe have increased by 181 per cent since July 2018. The US is now Europe’s third largest Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) supplier and the International Energy Agency expects a further 20 per cent Read more…
