Caroline O'Doherty

As the temperature and number of consecutive dry days increase, so too do concerns about water supplies https://t.co/cNUKHChDvg

56% of septic tanks inspected last year were faulty. If the statistic from the sample applies generally, that would mean 250,000 tanks releasing untreated or poorly treated sewage into gardens, streams, ditches & rivers @EPAIreland is concerned https://t.co/lDeF6H9cOT

Friends of the Irish Environment @FIEIRELAND are taking judicial review proceedings against An Bord Pleanála's granting of planning permission to Shannon LNG for a power plant https://t.co/hv7rWV1wQD

The anti-whaling ship used by @CaptPaulWatson is docked in Dublin for the next few weeks. Public welcome to call by for a tour and to talk to the crew https://t.co/KF6o5r2s1x

An effort will be made in the High Court to reopen main access to Castletown House for summer and begin process of finding a permanent legal solution to impasse https://t.co/R0ZT8W6PpX

Water quality at our beaches & lakeside swimming spots is good & improving, latest test results show but....testing is limited, pollution incidents still occur too frequently and increasingly heavy rain is washing untreated rain overflows onto coastlines https://t.co/2qSMUrUTRk

RT @RobbieGramer: Big congratulations to @declanwalsh and NYT for its well-deserved Pulitzer in international reporting They've done so m…

Why don't we know what happened to cause the massive Spanish power outage & what might we learn from ongoing investigations? https://t.co/hgXn63jE2O

Three water supplies are critical, 11 more are in drought and "many lakes and rivers across the country are well below their normal flows and water levels" Water supplies are under stress earlier than ever this year https://t.co/4WBnqGm7sJ

Laws needed to curb fossil fuel investments flowing through Ireland, say @trocaire & @Actionaid_Ire In 2024 Irish branches of international banks & financial institutions held €32 billion in oil & gas assets https://t.co/FFOP66CHrX

The @CCACIreland has lots to say about data centres, LNG & delays in expanding wind energy - but also about a lack of fair play for consumers in the transition to renewable electricity https://t.co/WAvU0Al0lH

Another river pollution incident, another prosecution, another application of the Probation Act. This one involves the country's biggest dairy company. @InlandFisherIE took the case to court https://t.co/c5sh1tw22V

Pesticide detections in drinking water are rarely above permitted levels but it shouldn't happen at all - @IrishWater, Dept of Agriculture & other state agencies are asking landowners to spray less & with more care https://t.co/GUpV4haOCz

Analysis for @WindEnergyIRL identifies 1,300km2 of land in Ireland it says could be used to site enough onshore turbines to treble electricity output from wind https://t.co/dNZOY711Z0

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