I will be speaking on the Enviro programme on Near FM 101.6 fm at 11:32am. In studio is me and local Ind. Tom Brennan and on the phone is Bernard Durkan FG for a discussion on the FG energy doc, ShutSellafield.com and the North Fringe, hosted by John Haughton. This is a repeat of last…
Category: enviro
Sellafield owners to be prosecuted
The British Nuclear Group (BNG) is to be prosecuted for breaches of health and safety regulations at Sellafield in a move that could hit government sell-off plans.The negligence charges follow an accident that closed the Thermal Oxide Reprocessing Plant (Thorp) a year ago and which is causing huge stockpiles of spent fuel to mount up…
twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe
CWI: This April 25/26 marks the twentieth anniversary of the Chernobyl catastrophe, the world’s worst nuclear accident. The explosion at the power plant, situated about 100 miles north of Kiev in the Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, sent a cloud of radioactive gas around the world. The cloud contained twenty times the amount…
people gonna rise up and take what’s theirs
Oil hits a record price of $70.86 a barrel NY Times Editorial:- … Ever since Royal Dutch Shell discovered oil in the Niger Delta back in 1956, revenue from oil wells has gone to line the pockets of Nigeria’s elite: military dictators and corrupt federal and local government officials. Very little has gone to help…
Geocaching for lunch
It’s Monday morning and the GeoCaching fun begins. We know the general location of the cache and we also know that there are 3 to be located. We also know that these caches were last logged on Friday. When we find them there will be items in the boxes that we are allowed to remove…
skys the limit
Its budget day bonanza time. I woke to this ominous sky this morning, 8.20am Baldoyle (the pink is pollution) . BIFFO has a bag full of money to give away. as you digest the data from the budget, 3 things 1. google save $100M with our generous tax system 2. its not stud farmers or…
car, 54, where r u
I heard it reported on RTE 2FM that the average Dublin commute time is 54 minutes according to the CSO. So if podcasts are tailored to suit average commute times, Dublin podcasters beware. “Dubliners love their cars” the commute time has also expanded because of the widening of the commuter belt as the celtic tiger…
Met Warning Issued 23/11/2005 13:00:00
Severe Weather Warning for Snow: Frequent snow showers are likely togive accumulations of between 3 and 8 cm below 250 metres during theperiod 1200 hours Thursday to 2400 hours Friday in counties Donegal,Mayo, Sligo, Leitrim and parts of Cavan. Strong to gale forceNortherly winds will occur during the same period, giving blizzardconditions at times and…
Shut Sellafield; Tony Blair, look me in the eye
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