Richard Boyd Barrett TD calls on ESB and Eirgrid to back off and put the cables underground

In a statement this evening, Richard Boyd Barrett TD welcomed the release of Teresa Tracey following her appearance in the High Court.

65 year old Teresa Treacy from Offaly was jailed on September 13th for refusing to allow the ESB to erect power cables on her land.

The ESB are trying to pull down trees on this land that have been nurtured by Teresa for many years and she has put huge personal investment into developing a bird and animal sanctuary on her land.

On Saturday 19 March a large group took part in a ‘Walk in the Woods, Stop the Sale of our Forests’ protest at Curracloe in Wexford.

Over the next ten, twenty or fifty years, humanity faces an immense environmental crisis as a result of rapid and chaotic climate change.

BP oil disaster response workers are reporting endemic problems, such as not being paid on time, low morale, rampant sickness, equipment failures and being lied to regularly.

For the first time in 87 days, little or no oil could be escaping into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's Macondo well. The new capping stack was deployed on July 11 from onboard the Transocean Discoverer Inspiration.


Photo by Erika Blumenfeld © 2010

With a new containment cap atop the damaged well, many are hopeful.

But all is not well, after all.

Not Beyond Petroleum - BP's oil spill

On 20 April a massive explosion at BP's Deepwater Horizon oil rig caused the deaths of 11 workers and precipitated one of the most catastrophic oil spills in history. Mark Bergfeld argues that this disaster is a result of the rapacious plundering of the environment by companies like BP.

As Dublin City Council says it is pushing ahead with construction of the Dublin Bay incinerator, major cracks are opening up in its plans.

With the environment in meltdown Martin Empson explains how individual solutions to climate change will not save the planet, and argues for a radical transformation of society