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Due to a change in personal circumstances, Paul Madden stepped down from the East Galway Gas Plant Concern Group last week. We, the members of the group, would like to express our sincere thanks to Paul for his incredible work as our Chair and spokesperson over the past six months. Since the shocking news of…
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The Green, Green Gas of Home
The fossil fuel industry has cleverly positioned gas as the “good guy” fossil fuel with the “transitional” label granting gas a stay of execution in the move to renewable energy. Gas is promoted as a facilitator of the renewable transition – but it’s a hollow narrative if we look at what is driving the need…
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Data Centres: A Runaway Train
Background Ireland’s attractiveness for data centres is down to a mix of a cool climate, tax incentives, and access to transatlantic data cables. Today there are 82 data centres with 14 more under construction and a further 40 have already secured planning permission. Data centres will account for 33% of electricity usage by 2026. Despite…
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N65 Road Traffic Incident
Galway County Council issued the following notice on social media yesterday, 30th August. Coincidentally, this was the same day that the council planning office rejected plans for an enormous battery storage facility on the same road, less than a kilometre from the site of this incident. “Following a road traffic incident on the N65, Killimor…
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A Victory For Common Sense
Galway County Council have refused planning permission for the first application by Coolpowra Flexgen Ltd. (Lumcloon Energy) for the proposed development between Killimor and Portumna. Needless to say, we are delighted with this outcome and its a first win on a long road. This element of the project was for 224 battery storage units (the…
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“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.”
~ Joseph Joubert, French author
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