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national / environment / news report Tuesday June 13, 2017 23:49 by 1 of indy
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Originally appeared on June 8th Today marks World Ocean Day 2017, a global day of celebration honouring the world’s oceans and an opportunity to appreciate, conserve and protect our marine life and habitats. This year’s conservation focus is on preventing plastic pollution and marine litter, encouraging solutions for healthier seas. And rightly so. A widely cited study by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation for the World Economic Forum warns that by 2050, there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish. A separate report in the journal Science estimates that 8 million tonnes of plastic enter the oceans each year – the equivalent of one truckload per minute. One researcher for the study likens this amount to lining up 5 grocery bags of rubbish on every foot of coastline around the globe. read full story / add a comment 
national / environment / press release Tuesday June 13, 2017 21:54 by fie
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Minister Dennis Naughton, TD, Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, has been urged to support a United Nations Convention’s ruling requiring suspension of work on the new Hinkley Point UK nuclear reactor until a transboundary Environmental Impact Assessment [EIA] is completed. The first new nuclear station to be constructed in the UK since 1995, Hinkley C is a 3.2GW nuclear power plant composed of two reactors. The power plant will generate 7% of UK's electricity if constructed. The UK position is that “the likely impacts determined through a thorough EIA do not extend beyond the county of Somerset and the Severn Estuary”. The Espoo Convention, signed by Ireland in 1991, requires that the opportunity for comment provided to the public of potentially affected Parties is ‘equivalent to that provided to the public of the Party of origin’. read full story / add a comment 
cork / environment / event notice Monday June 12, 2017 20:17 by CHASE
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There will be Public Meetings in Carrigaline and Cobh this week: >>TUESDAY 13 June: Public Meeting CARRIGALINE: Carrigaline Community Hall, Tuesday 13 June – 8.pm >>FRIDAY 16 June: Public Meeting & Launch of Cobh Zero Waste COBH: Cobh Heritage Centre, Friday 16 June – 7.30pm. read full story / add a comment 
national / environment / press release Friday June 09, 2017 17:45 by CHASE
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An accident has occurred at the Covanta operated Poolbeg incinerator last night (Wed 7 June) which resulted in the hospitalisation of 11 construction workers. Reports indicate the cause of the incident was an uncontrolled cloud of lime released inside the flue gas treatment area, which breached a door seal and engulfed the workers, resulting in reports of breathing difficulties, feelings of nausea and blurred vision. Lime, a highly alkaline, caustic and irritating material with potential to cause blindness and serious respiratory issues, is used in incinerators to ‘clean’ harmful compounds such as dioxins and furans from flue gasses. read full story / add a comment 
national / eu / press release Thursday June 08, 2017 22:22 by people
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PEOPLE’S NEWS -News Digest of the People’s Movement. No. 168 23 May 2017 Contents of this issue are: “The EU is in a unique position to provide global security” Feeding the Casino Economy “An EU army is a project that would give additional weight to the EU foreign and security policy” Wake up to TiSA! Who is Paul Kehoe? The European Patent Office—a bad employer The militarist legacy of Enda Kenny EU trade deals must be ratified by all members More on Kenny, EU militarisation, and even Brexit No honeymoon for Macron read full story / add a comment 
cork / environment / press release Thursday June 08, 2017 21:33 by 1 of indy
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Even though this is more than 1 week old, we are reposting it here to demonstrate how the state is going out of it's way to facilitate Indaver in their attempts to push through this incinerator in Ringaskiddy, Cork. Bord Pleanala has advised that the additional information supplied by Indaver is considered to contain significant additional data in relation to the effects on the environment of the proposed Ringaskiddy incinerator and have invited submissions from observers during a six week period to close 21 July 2017 at 5.30pm. This material was submitted at the invitation of the Bord who on making a fourth decision deferral in March 2017 invited Indaver to submit additional information on flight paths and an opportunity to correct their erroneous dioxin figures, exposed on the final day of the Oral Hearing held in April/May 2016. read full story / add a comment |
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