Energy Minister Eamon Ryan has welcomed the approval by the Board of ESB of a Strategic Framework to 2020 which should see the electricity supplier halve its carbon dioside emissions.
An ice shelf about the size of Connecticut is breaking up and "hanging by a thread" from the Antarctic Peninsula because of global warming, the British Antarctic Survey said on Tuesday.
The fourth meeting of the "Gleneagles dialogue" on global warming ended
last week with no sign of a consensus on a new global climate policy
after the Kyoto protocol on greenhouse gas emissions expires in 2012.
MAYO councillors are confident that their bid to overhaul planning
rules in rural Mayo will stand up to scrutiny from the Minister for the
Environment.
A DEVELOPMENT society in Derrybrien, Co Galway, scene of a massive
bogslide in 2003, has won its High Court challenge to the manner in
which Galway County Council extended planning permissions for the
erection of a wind farm on a mountain in the area.
Dublin City Council's decision to grant permission for a high-rise
cluster in Ballsbridge has no real basis in planning policy, writes
Frank McDonald .
CAMPAIGNERS
AGAINST the M3 motorway claim they have stepped up their campaign by
occupying a tunnel they say they have secretly dug under the proposed
route that passes through the Tara Valley in Co Meath.
Hempire Building Plaster, a new high-performance natural material that competes with more commonly used products in terms of performance and ease of use but can actually make for better, more pleasant buildings has been developed in Ireland.
Dublin City Council's split decision on Seán Dunne's
extremely expensive Ballsbridge site has left the developer facing an
uncertain future, writes Frank McDonald.