{"id":19323,"date":"2016-09-07T16:17:46","date_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=19323"},"modified":"2016-09-07T16:17:46","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T15:17:46","slug":"enviro-5th-september-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=19323","title":{"rendered":"Enviro &#8211; 5th September 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Environmentalist Brendan Kelly and a member of Fis Nua<\/strong> explained that the\u00a0EU Water Framework Directive contains the polluter pays principle which in\u00a0fact exempts domestic users.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Brendan Ogle of the Right2Wate<\/strong>r explained that\u00a0the UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights 2010 states that water is a\u00a0human right with the implication that it is not a commodity to be traded or\u00a0paid for. He referred to the peaceful anti water protest planned for Saturday\u00a0the 17 th September 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kate McAney of the Vincent Wildlife Trust<\/strong> pointed\u00a0out that our native Irish Mammal the Pine Martin\u2019s diet shows that it is not a\u00a0threat to farm animals despite recent calls by some representatives of the\u00a0farming community for a cull. She pointed out that recent sensational articles\u00a0such as one contained in the Farming Independent on the 30 August 2016\u00a0were over the top and grossly exaggerated. Her position is supported by\u00a0research carried out by the Irish Wildlife Trust findings of which are contained\u00a0in a recent press release. Other topics discussed were the fact that the French\u00a0Trade Minister Matthias Fekl has called for a halt to the TTIP trade talks while\u00a0the German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel has said that this trade\u00a0agreement is \u201cde facto dead\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>On the subject of the Enviro series Plants for\u00a0your Wildlife Garden, John recommended the plant Achillea a Summer flowering\u00a0herbaceous plant suitable for border planting which attracts wildlife to feed or nest, an all round\u00a0tough plant suitable for problem areas and which tolerates cold exposed locations. Recent\u00a0research has found that Leitrim people are the happiest in Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>Presenter:\u00a0John Haughton<\/p>\n<p>Panellist: Joe Dunne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environmentalist Brendan Kelly and a member of Fis Nua explained that the\u00a0EU Water Framework Directive contains the polluter pays principle which in\u00a0fact exempts domestic users. Brendan Ogle of the Right2Water explained that\u00a0the UN Universal Declaration on Human Rights 2010 states that water is a\u00a0human right with the implication that it is not a commodity to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5252,5253,1126,1267,4412,1723,5255,5254,5256],"class_list":["post-19323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-brendan-kelly","tag-brendan-ogle","tag-enviro","tag-fis-nua","tag-joe-dunne","tag-john-haughton","tag-kate-mcaney","tag-right2water","tag-vincent-wildlife-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19324,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19323\/revisions\/19324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}