The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
is prosecuting Shell E&P Ireland for breaching
its emissions license at the Corrib
gas refinery in north Mayo.
Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government
Simon Coveney has announced the appointment of four
non-executive board members to Irish Water’s parent
company Ervia.
Chambers Ireland and the Northern Ireland Chamber
of Commerce and Industry last week (4 July 2016)
announced a strengthening of cooperation between
the two organisations, which represent the all-island
business community.
ESB has hired a senior official from the energy
regulator’s office who was involved in monitoring
the activities of the company and its industry peers.
The European Commission has named Circular
Ocean - which includes Cork's Macroom E
as a partner - among the finalists in the RegioStars
Awards 2016, which honour Europe's most notable
and innovative projects supported by Cohesion Policy
Funds.
HEINEKEN
Ireland, a leading beer and cider company,
has published its sustainability report for 2015,
demonstrating that sustainability is embedded throughout
the business and is a key growth driver.
Antrim based Okotech Limited is capitalising on
consumer drive for energy efficient heating solutions
with its innovative heating control system, heatboss,
winning new business in the North and in GB.
Irish Water, working in partnership with Dublin
City Council, has announced it has signed a €8 million
contract to upgrade the Drinking Water Sludge Treatment
Facility at Ballymore Eustace Water Treatment Plant.
Mayo has just emerged from one of the wettest winters
ever recorded and thankfully has turned a corner
and summer is here. Many people are taking advantage
of improved weather conditions to catch up on some
spraying (or weed control activities).
Irish Water has announced details of a €1.25 million
project which will directly benefit businesses and
residents in Sligo Town to improve water pressure
and secure the water supply.
Minister of State for the Office of Public Works
and Flood Relief Sean Canney TD officially opened
the new offices of water and waste water solutions
company Glan Agua Limited and civil engineering
company MEIC Limited in Loughrea last week.
Northern Ireland Infrastructure Minister Chris
Hazzard has instructed NI
Water to cease any further installation
of water meters in domestic properties while legislation
is brought to the Assembly.
60,000 visitors flocked to SeaFest, Ireland's national
maritime festival (June 30 - July 3) to enjoy an
action-packed programme centred on Galway Harbour.
Construction of a €17 million pedestrian and cycle
bridge over the Liffey has been put on hold for
at least 15 months because of uncertainty over the
Dart Underground.
A major investigation has been launched after medical
waste including tablets, urine specimen bottles,
and used syringes - some clearly displaying the
names of patients - washed up on the shores of Cork
harbour.
Andrew Doyle, TD, Minister of State at the Department
of Agriculture, Food and the Marine with responsibility
for forestry, last week presented the 2016
Third Level Student Wood Awards at a ceremony
in the National Botanic Gardens in Dublin.
The Department of Transport, Tourism & Sport
wishes to remind road users that from the 1st of
July 2016, the maximum national regulatory weight
laden limit for articulated vehicle combinations
comprising of a two axle tractor unit towing a three
axle semi-trailer on Irish roads will revert to
a 40 tonne maximum weight limit.
IFA Environment Chairman Thomas Cooney has received
confirmation from the Department of Agriculture
that the mitigation potential from Land Use, Land
Use Change and Forestry, particularly from afforestation,
continues to be included in the ongoing negotiations
with the European Commission for a Climate and Energy
Framework to 2030.
Weedkillers and pesticides facing license renewal
in the coming months are expected the receive the
same high levels of scrutiny as glyphosate, it has
been warned.
Leading recycling rewards scheme provider Greenredeem
has last week published the most compelling evidence
yet that incentivizing households to recycle can
boost recycling rates and curb waste levels.
England’s first action plan designed to increase
the quantity and quality of household and commercial
food waste collected and recycled, was launched
last wee at the ADBA
Conference in Birmingham.
As a ban on the production and use of plastic bags
came into effect across Morocco on Friday, 1st July,
green campaigners say that the country's consumers
may need years to fully comply with the new law.
Cities across Europe must step up their adaptation
efforts if they are to handle the increasingly complex
challenges caused by climate change such as more
extreme flooding or prolonged heatwaves.
Paris has banned cars registered before 1997 from
travelling in the city center during the day, the
latest in a string of measures aimed at tackling
the city’s air pollution, city officials said last
week.
Plastic dumped into the seas around the UK is carried
to the Arctic within two years, scientists have
revealed, where it does “extreme harm” to the fragile
polar environment.
Marine Litter Vital Graphics, highlights
why it is important to act now if we want to avoid
living in a sea of plastic by mid-century. Though
short-term fixes do exist, any lasting solution
to the problem of plastic pollution must include
tackling it as its source.
The deadline to submit applications for the Horizon
2020 SME Innovation Associate pilot programme has
now passed - 192 proposals have been received from
SMEs who seek support in hiring researchers to help
them explore breakthrough innovations.
Ammonia emissions in Europe have fallen since 1990,
but by not as much as emissions of other air pollutants
tracked under an internationally agreed United Nations
convention.
Customers of Centrica-owned British Gas who have
had smart meters installed in Britain will be offered
free electricity on either Saturdays or Sundays.
A new, tougher, A to G scale showing the energy
efficiency of household appliances should be introduced,
to keep pace with technological progress, said MEPs
voting on an EU Commission proposal last week.
One of the world's largest floating offshore wind
turbines set sail last week from Osaka Bay in Japan
and is currently on its way to a site off the coast
of Fukushima.
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