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…
9 September 2020 A ruling from the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU) today is set to have major implications for the proposed Shannon LNG terminal and other projects across the bloc. The judgment found that extending the expired permission for the controversial project requires a new permit for Read more…
9 September 2020 Ireland is among four countries set to receive more than 10 per cent of the EU’s Just Transition Fund despite its planned coal-to-gas energy transition, new analysis reveals. Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe and Ember published the figure in its “Just Transition or Just Talk” report, a Read more…
February 12th, 2020 The European Parliament today backed the EU’s list of priority energy projects that includes dozens of gas schemes critics say are incompatible with the bloc’s climate ambitions. This morning, the Parliament voted down a motion – 169 in favour, 443 against – to veto the Commission’s Projects Read more…
October 4th, 2019 Irish MEPs have been told by the European Commission to air any concerns over the proposed Shannon LNG terminal directly with the Government. Earlier this week, seven MEPs from the island of Ireland sent a letter to Juul Jørgensen, the Director-General of the Commission’s energy department, Read more…
February 1st, 2019 Plans to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in the protected Shannon Estuary fall directly in line with the Government’s energy policy for at least the next decade, the High Court heard today. The court is hearing proceedings brought by Friends of the Irish Environment (FiE) Read more…
February 1st 2019 This week’s judicial review case of the planning application to construct a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal on the southern shore of the Shannon Estuary has raised many questions over whether such a terminal is appropriate in Ireland. Both the political and environmental climate has changed considerably 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 27th, 2018 Green-minded British entrepreneur, Nik Spencer, sealed his first sustainable business deal at the tender age of 20. Two decades later, and now a seasoned businessman, he has innovated a device with the potential to allay the world’s fuel shortage and plastic crisis. “Even when I was in Read more…
August 8th, 2018 The oil company Providence Resources recently signed a deal with the Chinese energy consortium APEC to fund appraisal drilling 50km off the coast of Cork in the Barryroe field. Tony O’Reilly Jr, CEO of Providence, told The Irish Examiner recently that an oil find in the Barryroe Read more…