Fiona Hayes delves deeper into the government’s policy to ‘promote’ mineral exploration and finds that currently 28 per cent of the land in Ireland is under licence for mineral prospecting. In fact most of the land here in West Cork is either ‘open for licence’, ‘open with exploration incentives’ or […]
Across the world, people, especially young people, are holding their governments to account to protect their own future and that of future generations. On July 31, 2020, seven Supreme Court Judges in Ireland ruled to quash the Government’s plan to mitigate against climate change, stating that the plan did not […]
Reading the Programme for Government that our new Administration agreed you may be enthused, or may be disappointed by the environmental aspects to be found therein. There exists a perceived lack of trust between the people and governments, where environmental matters are concerned, despite the rights we have concerning decisions […]
Data is being published from various scientific institutes that monitor the amount of pollution in the air on a global scale as well as by region and by country. Everywhere that we have ‘lockdown’, the levels of Nitrous Dioxide (NO2) and Particulate in the atmosphere have fallen along with Carbon […]