Environment
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Taoiseach and Tánaiste’s departments at odds over Agriculture department’s suppression of critical IFI report on infestation of salmon by sea lice
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Rewild your kids
Contact, attachment some defence in world collapsing socially and environmentally
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Why do billionaires tend to be visionless climate-denying misanthropists? Village Oct/Nov 2013 – 11 Oct As evil plutocrat villains go, Australia’s Gina Reinhart is straight from central casting, writes John Gibbons. The daughter of a mining tycoon, she is now regarded as the world’s wealthiest woman, with an estimated worth of around $20 billion. […]
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Flown forever: Birds under threat
Flown forever Shirley Clerkin Long-distance bird migration is down by nearly a quarter over the last 30 years ‘curlews are the Irish giant panda. Their population has collapsed by 86% over the last thirty years, with 200 or fewer breeding pairs remainin’ The day is full of birds. Stitched – moving – into the air, […]
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PAC doing a Mahon/Dunlop – in Docklands The Public Accounts Committee ignores dozens of other schemes and the position of Treasury Holding, in its focus on the Glass Bottle debacle By Michael Smith As the Public Accounts Committee allegedly gets stuck in to Docklands, I am struck how – in the same way […]
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Mechanised despoliation may cease, though pervasive exceptions proposed and EU Commission sceptical. By Tony Lowes (2011) Devastating the Bogs In the end for a while even Ming the Merciless, TD, zipped his mouth, allowing the under-informed media to report a ‘cessation’ of immemorial turf-cutting in designated conservation areas – affecting “6,500” turf-cutters and an estimated […]
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Get rid of Coillte
The State forestry company’s continuing ownership of 7% of Ireland serves socialism better than the environment – Tony Lowes