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Feeling the Heat
Even the scientists admit to feeling personal anxiety, grief or distress, over global warming
Environment
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• An Bord Pleanála’s manifest ethical weakness in perspective • The planning appeals board, An Bord Pleanála, has been brought into disrepute by its deputy chairperson’s property deals, by his criminal failed declarations of property interests and mishandled conflicts of interests, and by his receiverships. He must go. System of Planning Appeals […]
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6 Ormond Quay Upper Dublin 7 D07H324 The Secretary An Bord Pleanála 64 Marlborough St Dublin 1 D01 V902 14 April 2022. By email only to bord@pleanala.ie, communications@pleanala.ie Re: the imperative of An Bord Pleanála pursuing a criminal complaint under Sections 147-149 and 156-157 of the Planning and Development Act 2000 (the “Act”) against […]
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March/April 2022 75duplicity. Despite this, we managed once again to hold the line and steer the group’s reports from developer-friendly surrenders to solid conservation manifestos. History repeatsIn 2015 we had worked with then Fianna Fáil Senator Darragh O’Brien drafting his Moore Street Renewal Bill which reimagined the area as primarily a cultural and historic hub. […]
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74March/April 2022‘Strategic Action Plan for the NPWS’ which is the planned outcome of the Review process”, he replied to a written Parliamentary question on 21 January 2022.This technique of making a fnal report part of an ongoing multi-part bigger report, to avoid release, has been resolutely struck down by the EU Commissioner for Environmental Information.Unfortunately […]
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March/April 2022 73Health ofcer visited in 2018. He recorded complaints of “nausea, headaches, irritation of the eyes and stomach sickness”. He wrote that: ‘’The ponding was so thick and stagnant that birds and wildlife were walking along this pond of waste”. “Both solidifed and liquid material” were reported “at least 0.5-0.75 metres in depth”.As for […]
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Feeling the Heat
72March/April 2022to participating in climate demonstrations – it appears that being photographed waving a banner remains a “bridge too far” for the majority of working scientists. Whether this too changes as climate impacts intensify remains to be seen.While as individuals, most scientists are happy to engage in advocacy, three quarters of respondents did not think […]