Posts in the "Energy" category
Will the Energy White Paper live up to the spirit of Paris?
Posted on December 16, 2015 by Oisín Coghlan
We thought we'd let you know our take on the Paris Agreement.
Here's our press release , including an inititial assessment of what the Paris deal means for Ireland. And here's a round-up of assessments by campaigners, journalists and academics.
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March for Paris, now more than ever
Posted on November 24, 2015 by Oisín Coghlan
We need you now more than ever.
The French Government has cancelled the People's Climate March in Paris on Sunday, amid ongoing security fears. The people of Paris may not be able to march for climate justice but we can.
This movement is bigger than any one march, and we need everyone now more than ever. The Global Climate March -- which already consists of thousands of events, small and large, all around the world -- goes on. From London to Los Angeles, Quito to Quizon City, people are still taking to the streets. Join us in Dublin on Sunday at 2pm on Custom House Quay. There are also events in Belfast, Galway and Cork.
Permanent link | Categories: climatechange • energy • Paris • COP • COP21
It was twenty years ago today ...
Posted on November 10, 2015 by Oisín Coghlan
On the 10th November 1995, Ken Saro Wiwa and 8 other Ogoni leaders were executed by the Nigerian military. They had been campaigning to remove Shell and other oil multinationals from Ogoni land in the Niger Delta, after decades of oil operations and countless spills and accidents.
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Day of Action: email your TD, Dail rally, film screening. Oh, and finally ...
Posted on November 03, 2015 by Oisín Coghlan
I'm speaking at a briefing on fracking in Leinster House on Thursday lunchtime. Can you do me a favour and email your local TDs asking them to attend ? It'll only take a minute and they are much more likely to come when one of their own constituents asks them. Thanks.
The main speaker is a campaigner from Good Energies Alliance Ireland, based in Leitrim. They are very concerned at the increasing evidence that the EPA research on fracking is neither independent enough nor broad enough to be a legitimate basis for a Government decision for or against fracking. You can find out more here.
If you want to come to the briefing yourself, just email info@foe.ie and we'll organize entry to Leinster House for you.
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Our Director's speech to the MacGill Summer School on Ireland's energy future
Posted on July 24, 2015 by Oisín Coghlan
Yesterday I delieverd a paper to the MacGill Summer School on "Ireland's Energy Crisis: What's to be done?". You can hear my 15 minute speech by clicking below. You can read the text here. And you can read the Irish Times report here.
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Our great 2015 calendar is now available. And Happy New Year from all in Friends of the Earth.
Posted on January 05, 2015 by Oisín Coghlan
We think our 2015 Calendar is our best yet. Check it out here.
You can buy it online now for just €12.
It features stunning photos of Greenland by photographer Daragh Muldowney. He says of his trip:
"For me, it is a pursuit of beauty, a continuous search for inspiring visions of Nature. Greenland is a place of raw and abundant beauty, one of the few truly wild places left on our planet."
We're thrilled Daragh has given us 13 of his spectacluar images for our 2015 Calendar. You can see the full calendar here.
It's yours for just €12. And if you want a few for friends we'll give you 5 for €50!
Happy New Year from everyone in the Friends of the Earth office.
Permanent link | Categories: climatechange • energy • christmas • 2015 • calendar • Lima • COP • UNFCCC
Election Round-up: MEP hustings and ratings. Fracking the locals. And *that* Bill.
Posted on May 07, 2014 by Oisín Coghlan
It's election time and there are a number of ways that you can have your say even before polling day on 23rd May.
Young Friends of the Earth are having a hustings with European Parliament candidates in Dublin on Thursday 15th May, at 7pm in The Greenhouse on Andrew Street, D2. More info here.
The Environmental Pillar is having euro-hustings in all three constituencies. In Carrick-on-Shannon this Thursday 8th, in Cork next Tuesday 13th and in Dublin on Friday 16th. You can register here.
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Congratulations to Donal O'Kelly on his Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award
Posted on August 15, 2013 by Oisín Coghlan
Playwright Donal O'Kelly has won a prestigious Fringe First Award for his one-man show Fionnuala, a spine-tingling, stomach-churning insight into the mind of a Shell spin-doctor on the Corrib gas project in Mayo. The show is playing to rave reviews in Edinburgh where it got 4 stars from the Financial Times and a "Must See" accolade from The Stage. Donal has said he hopes the play might encourage a whistleblower to expose the dark reality of Shell's presence in Erris. Then just last Sunday the Observer rang a full-page investigative piece on allegations that Shell bought €35,000 worth of alcohol for the Gardai in Belmullet. Friends of the Earth's supports the call, made by Afri and others, for an independent investigation into the incident.
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A letter to Joe Costello when I thought he was going to the Rio Summit, or a couple of things Labour could do if they wanted to show they take sustainability seriously
Posted on June 13, 2012 by Oisín Coghlan
The Irish Times reported on Monday that Joe Costello, Minster for Development and Trade, would be joining Minister Phil Hogan at the Rio+20 Earth Summit.
We drafted a letter to him suggesting a couple of things he could usefully do to ensure Rio has a progressice impact in Ireland.
On Wednesday we discovered he wasn't going to Rio, the Irish Times was mistaken.
It's a pity really. Many countries are sending their prime minister, but not Ireland. Others are sending their deputy prime minister, but not Ireland. Last week the Taoiseach and the Tanaiste "launched" a blueprint for "Our Sustainable Future" but couldn't manage a word between them for reporters or the the public .
Permanent link | Categories: climatechange • energy • transport • waste • water • biodiversity • foodandfarming
No Consent
Posted on April 06, 2011 by Molly Walsh
The 10th of November 2006 was the 11th anniversary of Ken Sara Wiva's death. It was also the first time in my life that I experienced police brutality. The thing that connects these two facts is the corrupt power of Royal Dutch Shell. Something that was highlighted again yesterday with the emerging in the media of a recording of Gardai discussing raping women they have just arrested. It is horrifying and shocking to hear men in a position of power repeatedly use the word rape as part of an attempt to joke, what i feel is even worse is their raucous lads laughter that now rings in my ears. The women they arrested were peacefully protesting against the raw gas pipeline that shell is building in Mayo against the consent of the local community there. There is a good article on the whole sickening incident on Indymedia. What is illustrated by this recording is the dominance and brutality towards campaigners that has marked the policing operation since 2006.
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