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national / environment / news report Monday November 23, 2009 16:39 by Contaminated Crow
Five masts, a mushroom plant, a waste facility and golf club dunes read full story / add a comment
Meet IRMS - at the Shell compound in June this year - after the events in Bolivia
mayo / environment / news report Friday November 20, 2009 16:29 by Andrew   text 7 comments (last - saturday november 21, 2009 23:08)   image 2 images
A leader of the Bolivian Confederation of Peasant Workers (CSUTCB) is in Ireland this weekend to visit the local people who continue to resist Shell's experimental gas pipeline in Rossport and to demand that the Irish government investigate the role of Shell's security company IRMS in the attempt to start a civil war in Bolivia. Meanwhile in the wake of the An Bord Planala decision Shell's dangerous experimental pipe has been exposed as just that and many people are starting to question the wisdom of giving the energy corporations 420 billion of oil and gas for next to nothing.
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national / environment / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 18, 2009 12:41 by Cian Lynch   text 5 comments (last - saturday november 21, 2009 15:39)   image 1 image
“Someday Independent” is a 4 page leaflet produced by Dublin Shell to Sea. The design/layout and graphical work is of a very high standard and compares favourably to high cost, professionally produced brochures. The overall colour scheme and design is a pleasing blue “wave” design which is easy on the eye and appropriate to the subject material without drawing too much attention to itself. read full story / add a comment
Heather at a tar sands protest in Toronto (from ruckus.org)
international / environment / news report Monday November 16, 2009 10:23 by Andrew   image 1 image   audio 1 audio file
As conventional sources of oil become rarer the energy corporations have started the mass extraction of oil from the tar sands of Alberta. This is a filthy process that involves vast open cast mines, tailing ponds that can be seen from space and the use of huge quantities of water and energy making it a major cause of climate change. On Saturday Heather Milton Lightening of the Indigenous Environmental Network spoke to a national Shell to Sea meeting in Dublin about this struggle (last night she spoke in Inver, Erris). This is a 50 minute recording of that talk and the discussions that followed it. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Saturday November 14, 2009 15:34 by Contaminated Crow
A landfill, a waste transfer site, a World Heritage site, two masts and turf-cutting read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Wednesday November 11, 2009 22:05 by Donegal Alternatives to Pylons
An Bord Pleanála Board has overruled its own Inspectors and given the go ahead for a high voltage power line to run through South and West Donegal. This ESB Networks and Eirgrid project is not, as they maintain, to supplement the energy needs of County Donegal but rather to facilitate wind energy developers in their rush to profit at the expense of people in Donegal and their environmental heritage.
However local opposition is strong and Donegal Alternatives to Pylons is not going away. read full story / add a comment
O'Connell Street Festival
sligo / environment / news report Wednesday November 11, 2009 00:55 by Aisling Ryan   text 8 comments (last - saturday november 21, 2009 13:13)   image 1 image   video 1 video file
Sligo's elected representatives have ignored the majority of public opinion and have voted to reopen O'Connell Street to traffic. What can we do?? read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Tuesday November 10, 2009 10:30 by Contaminated Crow
An incinerator, two powerlines, two quarries, two masts, a windfarm, a recycling facility and turf-cutting read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / opinion/analysis Monday November 09, 2009 19:00 by Declan Cullen   text 6 comments (last - saturday november 14, 2009 17:15)
Dear Reader: With all the talk of recession, bank bail outs, jobs losses, swine flu etc, the people of Ireland are being distracted from one of the most significant, disgusting and oppressive taxes, i.e Carbon tax, which the government are hoping to burden the country with. This tax will drive the price of food via an increase in transport costs, and the proposed farm animal tax will also further drive the price of meat up at source adding injury to insult. read full story / add a comment
"Markets are the problem, not the solution" Activists evicted from closing plenary of Barcelona climate talks
international / environment / news report Friday November 06, 2009 18:34 by Dunk   text 6 comments (last - sunday november 08, 2009 13:53)   image 6 images   video 5 video files
At about 5pm this evening as the closing plenary of what can only be seen as a very disapointing climate talks in Barcelona, 2 people got up with a banner and walked toward the front stage shouting "Markets are the problem, not the solution". The banner appears to have read "Obama is finishing what Bush started".

They were quickly jumped upon by security guards at the conference and wrestled to the ground. A third person stood up and came to their aid, it appears she was taken away from the plenary by the security guards.

All three were evicted from the conference, no arrests were made. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / opinion/analysis Tuesday November 03, 2009 22:23 by Ed Moran   text 3 comments (last - monday november 09, 2009 18:27)
Today’s publication of An Bord Pleanala’s ruling (4 page statement) amounts to a rejection of the Corrib Pipeline application. read full story / add a comment
AGE OF STUPID - outdoor screening on streets of Barcelona this evening.
international / environment / news report Tuesday November 03, 2009 17:54 by Dunk   text 12 comments (last - friday november 06, 2009 22:52)   image 14 images   video 7 video files
This week (monday 2 - friday 6) the Barcelona International Climate Change Talks are happening, five days of formal negotiations, in the lead up to COP 15. Since Saturday there have been a series of actions in the cities streets as well as at the conference centre to raise awereness, to unite eco movements and to try to force change during this window of opportunity in the conference centre at the far side of Montjuic. But will it be enough to get us out of our AGE OF STUPID? Perhaps not, news has just come through today that African countries have abandoned the talks.

Talks Timeline
Saturday - Manifestation in Barcelona streets - The climate is not for sale
Sunday - Outdoor film screening in city streets - 11th hour - Age of Stupid - Eco hopes
Monday - TckTckTck wake up call for climate talks - Anarchist night greeting
Tuesday - Africa boycott U.N. climate talks, demands CO2 cuts read full story / add a comment
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mayo / environment / news report Tuesday November 03, 2009 15:37 by Rudiger   text 7 comments (last - thursday november 05, 2009 12:35)   image 10 images
This morning An Bord Pleanala have announced that they are deferring the decision on the onshore section of the Corrib Gas pipeline. Bord Pleanala says that approximately 5.6km (or 62% of the whole onshore pipeline) is considered unacceptable because of its proximity to dwelling houses located within its hazard range should a pipeline failure occur. See the latest RTE news report on this here: http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/1103/corrib.html or Irish Times report: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2009/1103/...0.htm
More on the Bord Pleanala decision will follow later, this is a report on yesterdays People's Forum in Belmullet and Minister's Forum in Corran Buí. read full story / add a comment
Windfarm along the route of the Great Retreats
international / environment / feature Tuesday November 03, 2009 14:12 by 1 of imc   text 1 comment (last - thursday november 05, 2009 16:53)   image 9 images
Seventy years after the Battle of the Ebro the dead remain unburied and the ghosts of Franco's dictatorship still haunt the landscape. Indymedia investigates... read full story / add a comment
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international / environment / news report Tuesday November 03, 2009 02:48 by Rafael Uzcategui   image 1 image
* The latest demonstration of political criminalization of autonomous social movements by the Venezuelan government is exposed by Rafael Uzcategui, a member of the anarchist collective El Libertario. read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Friday October 30, 2009 17:25 by Contaminated Crow
An incinerator, a windfarm, CCTV cameras, four telemasts and a factory chimney read full story / add a comment
Stop the Great Gas Giveaway
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday October 21, 2009 21:21 by Jen Debender   text 13 comments (last - tuesday october 27, 2009 11:58)   image 17 images
Today, Wednesday 21 October, Shell to Sea stopped work at an illegal Shell site for the entire day when a campaigner climbed onto the arm of a digger which was laying bog mats, in preparation for drilling works. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / press release Wednesday October 21, 2009 16:53 by Mayo S2S
Today, Wednesday 21st October at 1pm, Shell to Sea stopped illegal work at Glengad, Co Mayo, when a campaigner climbed on the arm of a Volvo digger. Shell were preparing to drill bore holes in a Special Area of Conservation (SAC), and the action was to stop this work from going ahead. Currently Shell have been stopped for 3 hours before their work has reached the SAC. read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / opinion/analysis Wednesday October 21, 2009 02:52 by JM   text 1 comment (last - thursday october 22, 2009 08:54)   1 attached file
Corrib onshore gas pipeline application (An Bord Pleanala ref. 16 GA 0004, 16 DA 0004)

19th May – 25th June 2009

Produced by Pobal Chill Chomain
July 2009

The attached document comprises the majority of questioning put to the applicant (Shell E&P Ireland Ltd) by An Bord Pleanala, and includes a summary of the verbal responses given (NOTE: questions from Thursday June 11th not included).

This text is compiled from handwritten notes and should be read only as a guide to the hearing, in conjunction with the application particulars, Environmental Impact Statement, accompanying drawings and the various Briefs of Evidence and supplementary documents. read full story / add a comment
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international / environment / news report Monday October 19, 2009 22:47 by Resistance Magazine   image 1 image
Resistance Magazine was created as a vehicle to inform, inspire, and energize the earth liberation movement. Humans have pushed the earth to the brink of catastrophe and each day that passes brings us one step closer to a planet that can no longer sustain life.

The question has now become not what we can do, but what we must do; not what we are comfortable with, but what we are fully capable of; not what is convenient, but what is completely necessary to stop the destruction of our home. read full story / add a comment
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