Irish Examiner: Environment groups are considering legal action

Today’s Irish Examiner includes an article covering how a consortium of environmental NGOs are considering legal action, at a European Level, on the failure of the Government to ensure a Strategic Environmental Assessment is conducted on Food Harvest 2020. The article looks at all areas of food production, finishing with issues surrounding government plans to significantly … Continue reading →

European Commission to probe agri-industry expansion plan

Today, the Irish Times highlighted a complaint from 15 environmental groups to the European Commission that agri-industry’s Food Harvest 2020 is not being environmentally assessed, despite industry themselves and the Environmental Protection Agency recommending it should. The proposals in Food Harvest 2020 include a 78% increase in fish farming output. Just last month, Save Bantry Bay made … Continue reading →

Southern Star Beara Notes – Marine Harvest not meeting newly agreed international standards

Last week’s Southern Star looks at the latest fish farming issues in Beara Notes section. Save Bantry Bay, a committee formed to oppose any further expansion of fish farming in Bantry Bay, has alleged that Marine Harvest, the largest salmon farm operators in Ireland, is not meeting standards recently agreed by the industry. The group … Continue reading →