“European legislation does not prescribe any quotas for waste incineration, nor does it oblige Member States to build waste incinerators if they do not wish to.”
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Killing The Sea
“Dredges destroy everything: all the sessile life of the seabed, the fish that take refuge in the sand; the spawn they lay there, reefs, boulder fields, marine archaeology – any feature that harbours life.”
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“…up to 1,000 women are involved in indoor prostitution on any given day in Ireland, with between 87 per cent and 97 per cent being migrant women”
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Mad Motorways
“…it’s political; we have to follow the old routes under the National Development Plan”
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Naked Contempt For Science
“By 1997, there had already been a 92% loss of raised bogs and an 82% loss of blanket bogs in Ireland”
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“Moloney’s expectations are quite unrealistic and his political calculus is ill-informed”
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Cynically Sanctioning Nuclear Iran
“After thousands of hours of inspections, the International Atomic Energy Agency still has not found any credible evidence that Iran is working on a nuclear weapon.”
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“The Greens have insisted that Brian Lenihan tack on a clause to the NAMA legislation providing for an 80% windfall tax on rezoning speculators”
