“Sometimes the law can do bad things…and this has to be challenged. One way to do that is to tell stories about the law” (Baroness Helena Kennedy QC, 2020).
Thanks to PILS for the invite to tell my story about the law and quest for environmental justice for my river #Faughan

This has huge implications for rural dwelling planning, for recent approvals, and for those that are intent on justifying dwellings into gaps that are actually important for our countryside. The Royal Society of Ulster Architects @RTPINI

For a project that’s aiming to “deepen connections between communities on both sides of the border”, it’s incredibly disappointing to hear that the fairy tree in Cornamucklagh, Omeath has been removed as part of the groundwork for the Narrow Water Bridge.

I see the Earl complaining about unlawful extraction when his Estate was unlawfully stripping Lough bed for 30 yrs! Has given legal rights to dredgers to exploit the Lough for another 23!

To acquire the Lough we may have to buy out Earl AND the dredgers!

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“DUP Councillors Henry Reilly & Glyn Hanna (a Board Member of WarrenpointPort) heaped praise on Sinn Féin Infrastructure Minister John O'Dowd for 'one of the most difficult decisions and forward thinking decisions that has been taken in this area'”

#SystemFailNI

“We hold that the decision-maker [NewryMourneDown| has not acted compliantly with its own policies which are designed to protect rural integrity and priority habitats and so the decision cannot stand.”

Fantastic news! Well done Gordon! #EJNI

“I think the right to a healthy environment is actually the foundation that we require to enjoy all other human rights. If we don’t have a living, healthy planet Earth, then all the other rights are just words on paper.”

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This evening at Belfast City Council every political party apart from the DUP supported my motion calling on stronger fines for repeated agricultural pollution that are poisoning our waterways to be reinstated.

Greens, SF, Alliance, SDLP, UUP, TUV & PBP in favour. DUP against.

“INEOS has previously called for the UK government to exempt the chemicals sector from climate taxes and lobbied aggressively to open the UK up to fracking.” - ClientEarth

It’s a tragedy how the beautiful game has become a vehicle for greenwashing.

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May Day Mayday! - Ships in Distress as 'Sinn Féin Bridge' plans will stop access to Albert Basin tinyurl.com/yscesqhs

I am shocked & saddened to hear today of the untimely passing of Jennifer Fulton,CEO Ulster Wildlife Jennifer was instrumental in the purchase & restoration of #Glenullin #bog I will always be deeply grateful for her support & guidance.

It looks like the construction of the Narrow Water bridge is imminent. Does anyone know if the design has been finalised? Will it end up looking like the artist’s impression below from 2008? If so, does this design align with calls to extend the ‘Ancient East’ into South Down?

RARE - Rostrevor Action Respecting the Environment John O' Dowd Justin McNulty Newry.ie John Mc Cabe Newry Reporter Friends of the Earth NI Save Our Lagan 🍃💚🍃 Stop The Chop! The ABCs of Green Politics 🌾 Casual Gardener 🇵🇸 #StopTheSlaughter Native Woodland Trust Carlingford Lough I have sixty Oak saplings grown from the acorns we saved from those beautiful, healthy, native oak trees that O'Dowd had cut down at night during a storm. The same man let us down at Knock Iveagh. For all the talk of Irish 'culture', I'm not convinced O'Dowd knows what it means.

In 2022, John O' Dowd sanctioned the felling of healthy mature oak trees at Greenbank Industrial Estate in Newry.

He then evaded Justin McNulty’s questions about this decision in the NI Assembly.

Now O’Dowd is back in office, it’s time for him to give some much needed answers.

This is what Ireland's 'just' transition looks like: enclosed networks of private wind/solar energy + data centres on former bogs. Not good for workers, people or the environment.

Amazon data centre in Bord na Móna’s new ‘energy park’ in Midlands independent.ie/irish-news/ama…

People in Warrenpoint reported a foul smell and swarms of flies during an extended period which led to an investigation by Newry, Mourne and Down District Council.

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Do other grassroots groups, activists and citizens also detect an enormous chasm between Sinn Féin’s rhetorical commitment to protecting communities and the environment and the reality you’ve experienced on the ground?

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“A tourist visiting the Norwegian Arctic archipelago of Svalbard has been fined more than £900 for getting too close to a walrus. Why did he do it? He was after a good picture, the police prosecutor believes.”

Just right. Nature is not a Disney film.

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This is a sad and dark day for football. Saudi Aramco just bought the game’s biggest platform to sell its dirty fossil fuels and clean up its grim reputation. To protect the sport we love, we need to stop this deal.

Department for Infrastructure don't even talk to other departments.

Communities NI funding the Albert Basin Park in Newry, allowing for tall ships to berth.

Department for Infrastructure building a bridge that will prevent tall ships from berthing in Newry.