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mayo / crime and justice / news report Thursday December 05, 2013 01:09 by C
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Last Saturday week (23rd Nov) in Inver Community Hall, the 2013 Peoples' Forum was held entitled "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? - Who Polices the Police?. The speakers at the event were Clare Daly TD and Mick Wallace TD, who spoke about the recent penalty points controversy and efforts to reform policing accountability. While Hilary D'Arcy who is doing a doctorate in policing focusing on Corrib spoke on policy accountability and politicisation of the police force and argued that increases in police accountability mainly arise from pressure from social movements. The days events were chaired by Sue Gogan read full story / add a comment
leitrim / environment / event notice Saturday November 30, 2013 18:52 by ffi
Campaigners will gather at Leitrim County Council offices on Monday Dec 2nd, 4pm, to demand Leitrim County Council insert a clause into the county development plan, that states, unconventional oil and gas exploration and extraction is banned in County Leitrim. read full story / add a comment 
national / environment / feature Thursday November 14, 2013 22:47 by Fracking watch
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The Irish Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is sponsoring an invite only Fracking workshop in London this Friday 15th Nov 2013 as part of its long term plan to introduce Fracking in Ireland. It has already commissioned research to help 'determine best practice guidelines to regulate the shale gas industry in Ireland' (all their own words). There is no hint here Fracking will NOT be allowed whatever the findings. This same body though is immune from prosecution under Irish law (See Box 1 below) making a mockery of it's regulatory role. read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / opinion/analysis Wednesday November 06, 2013 04:20 by NFI
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People all over the world are fighting Fracking you just won't hear that much about it in Irish media. This week after violent attacks from the police a few weeks ago, First Nations tribes people of New Brunswick, Canada, continue their battle to protect their children's health, water and land against Fracking. http://lastrealindians.com/for-immediate-release-sacred...ov-4/ read full story / add a comment 
fermanagh / environment / event notice Monday November 04, 2013 23:41 by FFAN
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There will be a Community Film showing followed by a facilitated discussion by FFAN in Melvin's Anglers Club House, Garrison, Co. Fermanagh. This will take place at 8pm, Thurs 7th Nov 2013 read full story / add a comment 
clare / environment / event notice Sunday October 27, 2013 13:02 by anti-Fracking
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Important notice to all residents of south & west Clare. The future survival and well-being of all residents of west and south County Clare is about to be decided on how the two single most important issues of our time are decided. (1) The internal divisions of the Cap Reform Payments in Ireland as a result of the 2013 CAP reform recently agreed in Brussels .Failure to achieve a fair and equitable division of these subsidies will result in the disappearance of at least 30% of the existing farming community and the elimination of many business in the rural towns and villages of Co.Clare.The UFA National Officers will present at this public information meeting the options for a fair and equitable distributions of the new payments facts and figures. Be aware the future of family farming as we know it is at stake here. read full story / add a comment
dublin / environment / event notice Saturday October 19, 2013 00:50 by anon
To mark the Global Frackdown day, No Fracking Dublin will be hosting a screening of Gasland Part II. A documentary that declares the gas industry's portrayal of natural gas as a clean and safe alternative to oil is a myth, and that fracked wells inevitably leak over time, contaminating water and air, hurting families, and endangering the earth's climate with the potent greenhouse gas methane. read full story / add a comment 
international / environment / event notice Tuesday October 08, 2013 18:16 by T
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On October 19, 2013, the Global Frackdown will unite concerned citizens around the globe to tell elected officials that we want a future lit by clean, renewable energy; not dirty, polluting fossil fuels. The journey to a renewable energy future will not be fueled by shale gas. Take a stand against Fracking — find an event near you and join the Frackdown! read full story / add a comment
national / environment / opinion/analysis Monday September 09, 2013 20:25 by one of NFI
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Protest taking place on Wednesday September 11th from 11.30am at the Radisson Blu St. Helen's Hotel, Stillorgan Road Blackrock / Gathering for public awareness raising at 3.30pm at the Central Bank Plaza, Dame Street read full story / add a comment
national / environment / news report Tuesday July 02, 2013 22:08 by anti-Fracking
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Help is needed to lobby our Environment MEPs on the review of this directive because this will be used to set the parameters on Fracking in Ireland. 1. Lobby our ENVI MEP’s – Review of the Environmental Impact Assessment Directive before 11 July!! 2. Watch the BBC documentary 3. Send an e post card read full story / add a comment 
national / environment / press release Thursday June 13, 2013 21:47 by Love Leitrim
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Irish Farmers are taking to the road in advance of the G8 summit. They will stage a tractor run Sunday June 16th from Manorhamilton to the iconic Ballroom of Romance Glenfarne in Leitrim to shine a light on their opposition to Fracking on the national and world stage. read full story / add a comment
fermanagh / summit mobilisations / event notice Saturday June 01, 2013 01:07 by Lorraine
Monday 17th June Afternoon Action Protest On The Lough A Flotilla of Protesters will take to the Lough – we expect this to happen around 4pm. We are hoping to have a music/cultural event to accompany this event and will provide more details as they emerge. read full story / add a comment 
international / environment / news report Thursday May 30, 2013 23:10 by Meg
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Northwest Network against Fracking have launched a postcard and poster campaign, aimed at all elected representatives. This image has gone viral on facebook, from South Africa to Australia, and more people are joining the campaign every day. The postcards are available to download for free from www.frackingfreeireland.org They can be bought from the same web address, in hard copy form. read full story / add a comment 
fermanagh / environment / event notice Thursday May 23, 2013 21:34 by anti-fracker
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An 80 minute documentary film is being screened at The Ardhowen Theatre, Enniskillen on June 4th, 8pm. Tickets, £2, are available to book online now at http://ardhowentheatre.com read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous / event notice Thursday May 23, 2013 19:22 by No Fracking Ireland
Press Conference / Public welcome - Friday 24th - Dublin in Buswells Hotel - 4pm on Molesworth Street opposite Dail Entrance How and Why the Irish EPA must ensure Human Health and our Environment are Protected Against the "Fracking" Industry Internationally renowned researcher and campaigner Dr.Mariann Lloyd Smith and Juliet Duff, Chairperson of Irish Doctors Environmental Association on the impacts of 'Fracking' (unconventional gas extraction) read full story / add a comment 
antrim / summit mobilisations / event notice Tuesday May 21, 2013 19:30 by Ciarán
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The amount of money used to bail out failed banks would have ended world hunger for 50 years. This is the world presided over by G8 leaders who meet every year to co-ordinate how to continue failed policies which favour the 'have yachts' over the 'have nots'. We say 'Another World is Possible' and over five days in June our Festival of Ideas hopes to challenge and inspire those who want to fight for it. Check the website at www.anotherworldispossiblebelfast.org - More events are still being added read full story / add a comment 
mayo / environment / feature Friday May 10, 2013 17:26 by Rossport Solidarity Camp
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Call Out: Come to the Rossport Solidarity Camp, Pullathomas, Co. Mayo for a week of action in June against Shell’s Corrib Gas Project. This week has been called to coincide with one of Shell’s busiest work times. Come to act in solidarity with the 13 year old campaign in Mayo against Shell’s Corrib Gas Project. The week will be jam packed with a wide variety of actions! There will be something useful for everyone to do, regardless of your experience and skills. The Rossport Solidarity Camp is being erected specifically for this week, and will be taken back down when the week is completed. So if you are planning on traveling to Mayo this summer – make it this week! read full story / add a comment 
international / environment / opinion/analysis Sunday May 05, 2013 04:48 by Climate Space
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The capitalist system has exploited and abused nature, pushing the planet to its limits, so much so that the system has accelerated dangerous and fundamental changes in the climate. read full story / add a comment
international / environment / other press Sunday April 28, 2013 14:05 by Turing.
Fracking is so very safe. Full text at url. A truck carrying drill cuttings from a Fracking site set off a radiation alarm at a landfill in Pennsylvania. Emitting gamma radiation ten times higher than the permitted level, the waste was rejected by the landfill. After the alarm went off, the MAX Environmental Technologies truck was immediately quarantined and sent back to the Marcellus Shale Fracking site it had come from in Greene County, Va. The 159-acre Pennsylvania landfill site accepts residual and hazardous waste, but the cuttings were too radioactive for the site to safely dispose. read full story / add a comment
leitrim / environment / event notice Wednesday April 10, 2013 22:43 by meg
Large areas of Leitrim and Clare are under options licenses for onshore Shale Gas extraction using destructive and invasive technology, including hydraulic fracturing. What is less well known is that large areas of Sligo, Leitrim and Roscommon are also licensed for Lignite extraction, which in simple terms is Coal Bed Methane/Coal Seam Gasification, with an even greater environmental and human health impact than shale gas extraction. read full story / add a comment |
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