PhD. Head of Advocacy for An Taisce. Water floats my boat. 🚲 powered. Views are my own.
Elaine McGoff
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'Government cannot continue to tell just one side of the story in a manner tantamount to lobbying for Big Tech and the data centre industry. Asking everyone to park their common sense about consequences is a stance that lacks credibility. '
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By Jim Benton
Elaine McGoff
Concerns around staffing levels in National Parks and Wildlife Service raised by @liamquaidetd.bsky.social
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6000 km on our family ebike.
This bike has taken everything we have thrown at it over the last 3.5 years, paddleboards, xmas trees, guitars, multiple children, adults, the xmas shop.
Cycling it still makes me happy every single day, regardless of the weather.
Life is #BetterByBike
Figures raise questions over staffing levels in National Parks and Wildlife Service, says TD
🎯 Our poor beleaguered waters
'The data tell the story:they’re filthy with pollution, clogged with man-made barriers & wrecked by State-funded drainage schemes that channel them, pour herbicides along them & cut vegetation that otherwise offers much-needed shade'
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Judicial review was the only way of fighting the plan to slab over our river. It wasn’t easy. We had to sell T-Shirts and art & crowd fund. There was plenty of stress. But we were right. The state was wrong. Now they are trying to make it harder to challenge them when they are breaking the law.
A conference is taking place in Dublin on Thursday 11th to highlight a MASSIVE threat to Irish nature.
Judicial Reviews have been a critical means for local communities to challenge wrongful, damaging environmental decisions, but they're going to be severely restricted by legislative changes.
SWAN presented today at the Joint Oireachtas Committee for the Fisheries and the Marine on our policy brief on aquaculture and our recommendations.
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Yuliya Komska
Caroline O'Doherty
Ireland should invest in nature, retrofitting and food and energy security to mitigate against current and future shocks, the Environmental Pillar will tell the Government at the National Economic Dialogue www.environmentalpillar.ie/prudent-inve...
Elaine McGoff
What happened on the river Glyde in June is not a local incident. It is a national emergency
You simply cannot attribute that many jobs to data centres, no more than you can attribute every job in Ireland people commute to by car to the existence of traffic lights
A conference is taking place in Dublin on Thursday 11th to highlight a MASSIVE threat to Irish nature.
Judicial Reviews have been a critical means for local communities to challenge wrongful, damaging environmental decisions, but they're going to be severely restricted by legislative changes.
Nitrates can be dangerous when excessive amounts leak into environment from synthetic fertilisers and pig, poultry & cattle manure. They cause widespread river & coastal pollution across EU, and contaminate the groundwaters that provide much of drinking water supply
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Denmark is set to radically overhaul its drinking water policy as part of a raft of sweeping reforms to the country’s livestock industry. In a nation with more pigs per capita than anywhere else in th...
