(This article is extracted from the EU funded Sea Change Project. Links below. Illustration by Marker Wizards Ltd.) Many of our waste products end up in the sea. This includes visible litter as well as invisible waste such as chemicals … Read More
When I first joined the Save Our Skibbereen Campaign I rang Polly Higgins Award Winning Author barrister and Ecocide Law Expert. She warned me , “Don’t even get into this if you aren’t prepared to be in it for the … Read More
I recently spent a day watching magnificent Finn Whales off the coast of West Cork with Colin Barnes, ‘Cork Whale Watch’. What a privilege it was to be in the company of these giants, being the second largest animal on … Read More
RTP have opened a new Plastic Factory in Wroclaw, Poland. From their own website, it was announced as follows in February 2018 : “The 8,000 square metre facility, located at Prologis Park V in Wroclaw, has a wide dock area … Read More
What is so interesting about this head line is that it comes from an article in the Irish Times dated Thursday April 7th 2005. A disturbing account of the health hazards of living in the close vicinity of a Plastics … Read More
I’ve been fishing debris out of the river for several years. I began picking up floating trash to make the scenery more appealing to myself and other patrons of Speed River Paddling, a local Guelph kayak/canoe rental company. They used … Read More
David Puttnam “As someone who has worked for over twenty years on the development of strategic and environmentally sustainable European solutions to economic and employment problems, the proposal for a plastics factory in Skibbereen flies in the face of all … Read More
We believe this factory is ill advised, badly planned, and has not been subjected to the necessary and rigorous tests of suitability that Skibbereen and West Cork deserve. We believe it will impact terribly on our air, our water, our … Read More
