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Posts relating to environmental issues

Is economic growth ecologically sustainable?

By Conor Payne The climate and ecological crisis is an existential threat that’s only becoming more severe – it will increasingly intrude into all areas of life, shaping the economy, geopolitics, and the struggles of the working class and oppressed. In the

Aug 6, 2026

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What the frack?

Hydraulic Fracturing or “fracking” is a technique for extracting gas from deep within shale rock and coal beds. It looks set to become big oil’s newest gold rush and, as usual, their desperation for profit makes them blind to the environmental costs

Jul 19, 2011

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Socialist planning needed to avert a global catastrophe

Climate Change is already destroying lives. 21,000 people died as a direct result of extreme weather conditions in the first nine months of this year, a new Oxfam report says.

Dec 15, 2010

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Lust for Profits caused BP oil disaster

“It is as enraging as it is heartbreaking, and we will not relent until this leak is contained, until the waters and shores are cleaned up, and until the people unjustly victimised by this manmade disaster are made whole”. These words of

Jul 15, 2010

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Government’s new gas field giveaways

At a time when the government continues to implement savage cuts on working people on the one hand it is still in the process of giving away billions of euro worth of our natural gas to private interests. Two onshore gas fields are

Jun 8, 2010

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Release Pat O’Donnell forthwith!

It is an outrage that Pat O'Donnell finds himself in prison at all. He is a victim of the criminalisation of decent people involved in peaceful protest in Erris.

Feb 28, 2010

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Copenhagen climate crisis environment second to profit once again

With Obama’s acceptance that agreeing a legally binding framework on climate change and reductions in emissions will not be possible at the talks in Copenhagen, commentators and participants are now trying to portray this in a positive light.

Dec 7, 2009

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Fianna Fail blame poor planning for Co.Clare floods!

Homeowners and businesses across the Midwest are bracing themselves for the worst as further heavy rainfall is forecast and the tide on the already swollen River Shannon due to rise by a another metre over the course of the next week.

Nov 29, 2009

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Clonmel floods and property boom

Clonmel has been hit by major floods in 2000, 2004, 2007, 2008 and now twice this year. The main reason Clonmel has seen such devastating floods in recent years is because the River Suir's natural flood plains have been built upon.

Nov 29, 2009

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Galway Flooding – a disaster waiting to happen

Widespread flooding has led to the destruction of homes, isolation and illness. This flooding is a damning indictment of both the government’s attitude to the unharnessed property sprawl facilitated by local councils over the last decade.

Nov 29, 2009

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Cork city floods – could this have been prevented?

More than 20,000 households, mainly on the working class Northside, have been left without a direct water supply for a week and will be without for at least 11 days. Hundreds of homes and businesses have been wrecked by the flood.

Nov 26, 2009

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