{"id":30538,"date":"2019-02-22T13:41:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T13:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=30538"},"modified":"2019-02-22T13:41:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-22T13:41:20","slug":"enviro-18th-february-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/listenagain.org\/?p=30538","title":{"rendered":"Enviro &#8211; 18th February 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/widget\/iframe\/?hide_cover=1&amp;feed=%2Fnearfm%2Fenviro-18th-february-2019%2F\" width=\"100%\" height=\"120\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On this edition of Enviro we discussed:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em> Tony Lowes<\/em> of Friends of the Irish Environment gave details of the court case to do with extensive gas storage facilities in the West of Ireland, about which his organisation has taken a legal case against An Bord Pleanala. Tony mentioned that this oil was extracted on a fracking basis which was raised at the hearing and John mentioned <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the important anti-fracking group<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ECOLEAKS: the fact that Facebook censored this site by eliminating many of the members from the list of subscribers arbitrarily. This is the World\u2019s largest anti-fracking group built by EcoLeaks, Facebook deleted 14,000 members by request of the govenm- is located in Argentina<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ecoleaks\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patagonia.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/the-first-eco-leak\/?fbclid=IwAR3w3_mnEI-YE-vtNPWEVBdlZylmitJwXH0KmDlSKRdvqTlum85IGALiK8c\">https:\/\/www.patagonia.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/the-first-eco-leak\/?fbclid=IwAR3w3_mnEI-YE-vtNPWEVBdlZylmitJwXH0KmDlSKRdvqTlum85IGALiK8c<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AIDA is the only regional organization of environmental legal experts who are from and are in Latin America.\u00a0We use the power of international law to create sustainable solutions throughout the region.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aida-americas.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HTTPS:\/\/AIDA-AMERICAS.ORG\/<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Victor Quintanilla (Mexico), AIDA,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"mailto:vquintanilla@aida-americas.org\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vquintanilla@aida-americas.org<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Author Christopher Ketcham&#8217;s new book \u2018This Land: How Cowboys Capitalism and corruption are ruining the American West\u2019 due out in July 2019 (Viking-Penguin)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Johnny Woodlock<\/em> of the Irish Seal Sanctuary commented on the proposals from some quarters to carry out a \u00a0seal cull in the south west of Ireland. He pointed out why a cull in his opinion and that of his colleagues in the caring for Seals world regard a cull as unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em> Susan Breen<\/em> environmentalist and activist <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">spoke at length \u00a0about where she gets her inspiration and what she wants to achieve environmentally. She explained what the \u2018Extension Rebellion\u2019 movement is about as well as its importance and how it can make a big difference. She had attended the launch of the new Forest Friends Branch in the South East of Ireland (New Ross) on the previous Saturday and spoke about the Extinction Rebellion movement there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We mentioned the fact that there had been a deer cull in the Phoenix Park and that the\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alliance for Animal Rights (AFAR)<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u00a0was full of <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fury at what it described as \u00a0\u2018the careless, needless cull of Deer at Fernhill\u2019in<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> censoed<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the Wicklow area.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AIDA is the only regional organization of environmental legal experts who are from and are in Latin America.\u00a0We use the power of international law to create sustainable solutions throughout the region.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aida-americas.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">HTTPS:\/\/AIDA-AMERICAS.ORG\/<\/span><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Victor Quintanilla (Mexico), AIDA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Broadcast: 18\/02\/2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Presenter\/Producer John Haughton,\u00a0 Panellist Joe Dunne<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Interviewees (phone) Susan Breen, Tony Lowes, Johnny Woodlock<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On this edition of Enviro we discussed: Tony Lowes of Friends of the Irish Environment gave details of the court case to do with extensive gas storage facilities in the West of Ireland, about which his organisation has taken a legal case against An Bord Pleanala. 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