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national / environment / event notice Thursday September 29, 2011 - 08:03 by Teresa Treacy Support Group
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Tuesday 4th October 2011, 12pm – 2pm at ESB offices, St Stephen's Green, Dublin 2. Come and show your support for Teresa Treacy and your 'contempt' of the ESB decision to have Teresa Treacy jailed. Demand that the ESB ask the court to release Teresa Treacy in order that this dispute be settled reasonably. Meet outside the ESB offices at St Stephen's Green in Dublin beside the ... em ... Anglo Irish Bank HQ (if the irony doesn't kill you) near the Shelbourne Hotel. ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment / press release Thursday September 29, 2011 - 06:04 by Teresa Treacy Support Group
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News Release. Issued by the Teresa Treacy Support Group. Wednesday 28th September 2011. Boycott the ESB – Switch Service Provider – Say It, Mean It, Do It! ... read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Tuesday September 27, 2011 - 13:09 by PAW
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Today sees the release of the People's Association Watchdog's Submission on Fracking to the government, some of the noted points of concern include the use of TOXIC Chemicals used in the process and the important questions of water pollution, air pollution waterway contamination are also highlighted. One of the main concerns raised in the document is the likely constitutional offences that fracking may endorse. The People's Association Watchdog have published their findings today and a copy of the submission has been sent to all TDs and relevant parties. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment / news report Saturday September 17, 2011 - 15:11 by Teresa Treacy Support Group.
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On Wednesday the 14th of September, concerned individuals wishing to support Teresa Treacy arrived at Clonmore, Tullamore. The following morning the supporters learned that no tree felling would be carried out that week and ESB workers had been instructed to leave the site. On the morning of Saturday the 17th of September, Teresa rang from the prison to say that her spirits had been lifted by the news. She has her own cell in the prison thanks to the good graces of the prison staff. After her initial shock she is settling in. She said she has no intention of 'purging her contempt' and is calling out for support. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment / opinion/analysis Thursday September 15, 2011 - 16:34 by Edward Durand
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There have been widespread objections to the granting of licences to drill for gas in the Lough Allen Basin. At the moment the only way of extracting the gas is the controversial practice known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday September 14, 2011 - 18:50 by j debender
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Tuesday 13th September six people from the Rossport Solidarity Camp went down to Shell's tunnelling compound in Aughoose, Co. Mayo to disrupt work. Work was slowed from three separate actions spread over 2 hours as people interfered with fencing work and then two people got up on a tractor making a delivery to the compound. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment / news report Monday September 12, 2011 - 19:57 by Niall Harnett
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Teresa Treacy, a 65 year old woman from Tullamore, Co Offaly has been ordered to jail by High Court Judge Daniel Herbert at the request of the ESB. Ms Treacy, who shares the family farm with her sister Mary at Woodfield House, Clonmore, Tullamore, Co Offaly has refused the ESB access to her lands in order to protect the natural environment and the native trees that she has managed there for many years. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Saturday September 03, 2011 - 14:29 by RB
Bad news for the AGW deniers. Another one of their papers is discredited. Even the editor of the journal that published it is resigning. The editor of a science journal has resigned after admitting that a recent paper casting doubt on man-made climate change should not have been published. The paper, by US scientists Roy Spencer and William Braswell, claimed that computer models of climate inflated projections of temperature increase. It was seized on by "sceptic" bloggers, but attacked by mainstream scientists. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Friday August 26, 2011 - 20:12 by j debender
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Between lock-ons, mass trespasses, lorry climbing and a breach of security at Shell's refinery, this week brought a lot of people out protesting. Locals who haven't been out on the roads in years have come out this week, and momentum is building. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday August 24, 2011 - 08:04 by Frank
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Today 25 people from Rossport Solidarity Camp sustained a barrage of actions against the site Shell is preparing for its tunnel boring machine. Despite 80 security and three vans of gardaí they were unable to keeps the protesters out. In the chaos that ensued one person got through the lines to d-lock themselves to one of the diggers and remained up there stopping work for 4 hours. Elsewhere other diggers had to stop working as protestors approached. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Wednesday August 03, 2011 - 17:27 by j debender
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On Tuesday 2nd August Shell's work was halted for most of the day, only two tractors getting into the Aughoose compound by 3.30pm. There was a heavily increased garda presence with up to 40 guards being drafted in from Roscommon and elsewhere, and four arrests were made. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Friday July 29, 2011 - 10:15 by Andrew
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The Shell to Sea national day of action is now in progress in Erris with a WSM member at the scene reporting that all work has been stopped, several fences have been pulled down and up to 30 people are now occupying Shell's compound. This despite the deployment of large number of private security who along with Garda have assaulted campaigners in a failed attempt to stop them gaining access to the site. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Friday July 29, 2011 - 00:16 by j debender
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From 7am to 7pm on Thursday, the road between Shell's Bellanaboy refinery and the Aughoose compound was virtually shut down by local residents and supporters from the Rossport Solidarity Camp. Between a person sat on top of a tractor and then a tripod in the morning, a blockade of the scaffolding company responsible for getting the tripod removed, then a mass of people blocking the road outside the refinery in the afternoon, it was a brilliantly successful day. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Thursday July 28, 2011 - 15:49 by j debender
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On Wednesday 27th July two people locked their arms into a concrete barrel or 'lock-on,' blocking the road between Shell's Bellanaboy refinery and the tunnelling compound in Aughoose. This stretch of road has been the focus of the protests this week with protesters on bikes and on foot blocking tractors in addition to the tripods and lock-ons. ... read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / news report Tuesday July 26, 2011 - 11:35 by j debender
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Monday 25th July Shell intended to begin constructing a permanent compound in Aughoose from which to begin laying the offshore pipeline. However in a statement to Midwest radio Shell commented that works had been 'severely impeded' on Monday. Between a 5½ hour tripod blockade in the morning and loads of protesters on bicycles and on foot, the roads remained shut down for quite a lot of the day. ... read full story / add a comment
mayo / environment / news report Friday July 22, 2011 - 14:26 by Andrew
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Rossport Solidarity Camp is reporting that this morning Shell started work at the compound in Aughoose where they intend to start digging the tunnel to house a section of the experimental high pressure raw gas pipeline that has been opposed for a decade by the local community. ... read full story / add a comment
leitrim / environment / news report Thursday July 14, 2011 - 19:09 by Contaminated Crow
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Over 60 people attended a meeting of those opposed to proposed gas fracking in the north-west at the Mayflower in Drumshambo, Co. Leitrim on the night of July 12th. The major concerns raised at the meeting were organisational, with the –still nameless- group agreeing to the formation of a ‘core group which isn’t called a core group’.
Editor: Fracking is technology used for extracting natural gas trapped in rocks underground and is the process of forcing liquids and solids into the rock and forcing it to crack and thereby releasing the gas. Fracking liquids can cause pollution and the process of cracking the rock can significantly drop the water table and dry out huge areas.It has many other problems including exponential fall-off in production from year 1. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Wednesday July 06, 2011 - 17:50 by The Mekon
Interesting information regarding the lull in global warming from 1998 to 2008. Full story at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14002264 The lull in global warming from 1998 to 2008 was mainly caused by a sharp rise in China's coal use, a study suggests. The absence of a temperature rise over that decade is often used by "climate sceptics" as grounds for denying the existence of man-made global warming. But the new study, in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concludes that smog from the extra coal acted to mask greenhouse warming. ... read full story / add a comment 
national / environment / opinion/analysis Thursday June 16, 2011 - 17:19 by éirígí Sligeach
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'Fracking' is a term that not everyone may be aware of. It is used to describe a method of shale gas extraction known as Hydraulic Fracturing. Unfortunately it is a term we are very likely to hear a lot more about in the coming months and years. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment / event notice Monday June 13, 2011 - 15:50 by Tara Wray
On the 18th June there will be an awareness raising action taking place on shop street in Galway in order to raise public awareness about the Tar Sands. We will be flyering bettween 10:30 to 3 or so. I will have flyers available for anyone who is willing to help out. I also have two posters done up for the day. If anyone is available to help out with flyers and talking to the public please email me. ... read full story / add a comment |
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