Just found the above chart backing up what I have been saying for years.
Global warming is a wholly natural event, if humanity disappeared tonight, global warming would still happen.
Actually, yes, because the current Government policiys in the folios of Transport and The Enviroment are created by the Green Party and when passed into law, ties the hands of the local councils in terms of what they can and cannot do, regardless of the political layout of the councils. Hopefully when the Green Party are finally wiped out in the next General Election, some of the more ridiculous ones will be repealed, like the DRS for instance when there are already recycling bins povided by waste collection companies.
The greens have a "private jet to work" scheme in the offing I believe.
Absolutely disgraceful- you should be ashamed. Sell up your country house and cars and move into a high rise apartment in a city asap.
do you not think as the population grows and grows we should design denser communities that don't require 2 cars or even 1 car? i'm not sure how we could all live in one offs with 2 cars in the long run. no one is taking your one off for you now, don't worry, but we should be planning for the future by building smarter.
I don’t live in a one off. I live in a semi d. Maybe it would be better for individuals not to be dictating to others what they should or shouldn’t do when they’re more than likely doing the very thing they’re giving out about!
so you're against residential planning of any kind and the smartest way to design roads and transport systems? this would usually put denser living as a core principle, because allowing everyone to build one offs would be disastrous going forward.
where did I say that? Of course higher density properly planned with appropriate transport links and green recreational spaces with appropriate services should be provided, but people should not be brow beaten into where they should or shouldn’t live. Incentivise people to live in high density areas by making it attractive- not by penalising people for living in the country. Same with people travelling- make it attractive for people to holiday in Ireland and reducing their carbon footprint, as opposed to spending- oh I don’t know- 4 weeks in the north of Spain for example
Which policy made Dublin City's councillors choose to adopt this plan?
You think the Dublin councils had a choice in picking which policies to follow? They had as much choice as any of us have once something has become law.....absolutly none.
Hilarious, it's Green policy when they're popular, and it's "they made us do it" when their policies are unpopular.
Shysters.
Or to put it another way, what allowed the courts to overturn a tranport plan such as the Galway bypass, which had already been given the go ahead by the council, until a challenge by a group led by the Chairperson of the green party.
Answer to save anyone looking: the Government's climate and transport legislation introduced by the Green Party, under the Ministerial portfoliios of the departments of Transport and the Enviroment. Departments that are under Eamon Ryan's control.
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/
Could you please point us to what piece of legislation resulted in the cancellation of the Galway bypass? thanks.
Anyway, the actual answer is that ABP simply had not considered the newest Climate Action Plan, so they screwed up. The Climate Action Plans predate the Greens entering government and the legislation mandating they consider the Climate Action Plan massively predates the Greens being in government.
“The planning authority’s decision not to contest court action against the project by campaign group Friends of the Irish Environment”
Guess who these FIE are? Yep greens in disguise
”Setting out the decision to concede action against the permission it granted for the Galway road last November, An Bord Pleanála said it was “not aware” at the time that the Government had adopted a new climate plan days previously and failed to consider it, as required by law.”
Bit in bold, guess who on government rammed this through? Yep that’s right
So Brooks & the Racecourse owners took their lead from a member of the green Party? So the High Court takes its direction from certain people?
You're posting nonsense. The fact is that the application was not done properly. ABP also fecked up. Millions have been squandered on this road project and yet they still cannot plan it right: this is where your ire should be pointed towards!
https://www.n6galwaycityringroad.ie/media/Order%20-%20Brooks%20Timber%20and%20Building%20Supplies%20Ltd%20JR.pdf
https://www.n6galwaycityringroad.ie/media/Order%20-%20Friends%20of%20the%20Irish%20Environment%20JR.pdf
It was in the Programme for Government. There was a Climate Action Plan in 2019 also, with no Green in government at all.
ABP screwed up and it was a purely procedural screwup. It has nothing to do with the content of the CAP and nothing to do with the Greens forcing through anything. TFI objected to ABP not fighting the case in court, but ABP are an independent body and chose not to fight it.
Screwups abound in this case, they just aren't related to the Greens.
A clear pattern of obstruction and going way out of their way to stop the bypass by abusing the courts
Did the Programme for government have “we will cancel the Galway Bypass” in it? Because I remember claims to opposite and voted accordingly
"abusing the courts"? You're having a laugh now!
Millions have been wasted on a half assed approach to this road, which the councils admitted would increase emissions and as every road shows, increased traffic. Vent your anger at the correct cause for this project failing!
how would emissions increase if by time this is built all cars be electric?
Ask the councils as it was their statement!
Well if we manage to get to 96.5% CO2 in the atmosphere, and lots of sulphuric acid…
The current CO2 level is 427 ppm, which is 0.0427% of the atmosphere.
Quite amazing that life on earth has thrived with far higher average global temperatures and a lot more CO2 in the atmosphere than there is at present.
Bringing up Venus might be slightly premature.
It's unlikely all cars on our road will ever be fully electric, at least not in our lifetimes. The govt has a target of 1m EVs on our roads by 2030, if they don't meet this target first, which would represent about 44%, they're unlikely to ever get to 100%
Remind us again who was the minister responsible for such a major infrastructure project?
Could have put a restriction on the road to be low emissions hybrids and electric cars and commercial only
Then you have a carrot at least for population to upgrade faster
But no it’s all **** stick with environmentalists
It was an ABP screwup, which he is not responsible for.
This is a bloody weird obsession you have.
I can not stand developments being blocked so frequently by judicial action so I am in no way happy about what happened. However, you keep trying to make out as if it is a function of the Greens when it just isn't. These things happened before the Greens and will continue to happen after they are out of government. You are flailing around blaming them cause you don't like them and ignoring the realities of what actually happened.
The greens shouldn’t have went after Galway bypass, that’s when they lost support of majority of population here
I won’t forgive them for that, we were promised a bypass and it looked like it was about start and then just bullcrap
"The Greens" didn't. One Green councillor among a coterie of other people did. You may as well be railing against the horse racing industry for all the sense it makes.
You've been shown that the problem lies with the flippant approach to planning taken by the councils and the mistakes by APB and yet you keep blaming the Greens who despite various flaws, had nothing to do with specificslly why this failed.
Your bias is blinding you!
No, they did not, but they're objections were for different reasons which you omitted to mention. There were hundreds of objections to the Galway city bypass, the majority of which were from homeowners, landowner's and businesses that were under threat of compulsory purchase orders including the two businesses you mentioned, For example, in the case of the racecourse, the bypass was planned to run through Ballybrit.
However those objections had nothing to do with the reasons the planning permission was overturned, It was overturned because of a change to planning laws implemented by the Green Party. that the councils and An Bord Planeala were not aware of, which formed the basis of Green Party's Chairperson's and green organizations objections. Basically it was overturned due to it being in contravention of environmental laws.
Had there been no change in the planning laws which had formed the basis of those particular objections, all the other objections would not have mattered, regardless of how many objections to compulsory purchase orders there were.
So again, the changes to policies introduced by the Green Party and therefore the Green Party are ultimately to blame.
"Government’s later Climate Action Plan 2021" which had replaced that of the pre FFG Government’s Climate Action Plan 2019
It's in a link I already shared with you here over the weekend.
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