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Growth for Growth's Sake: some thoughts on the Dublin Airport passenger cap and the Dublin Port expansion scheme.
How do we ensure that the infrastructure we develop is delivered in a way that aligns with our climate and environmental targets and is not just based on the old paradigm of ever-increasing growth?
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Some thoughts on the Dublin Airport passenger cap and the Dublin Port expansion scheme. We have been bombarded in recent months with reasons why the Dublin Airport passenger cap must be lifted to allow for “growth” at Dublin Airport and in our wider economy but there has been very little analysis of
The deadline for observations on the planning application is next Wednesday 25th September.
Minister for Transport and Green Party TD for Dublin Bay South, Eamon Ryan, will be discussing the plans at a public meeting this Thursday evening at the Fair Play Café, York Road.
More details here:
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-future-of-dublin-port-tickets-1012882748567
Dublin Port Company is planning a massive expansion of its operations on lands to the south of the port over the next 15 years which increase its capacity to 77m tonnes p/a - more than double the current throughput. It claims that there is a need to plan for 3.3% growth year on year.
The inconvenient truth is that the throughput of the port last year actually fell 3.1% from the previous year.
You can view the planning application documents here:
This seems like a very shortsighted decision by Dublin City Council. I hope Irish Rail take it to An Bord Pleanála.
It also illustrates an ongoing problem where there is a lack of coordination and consistency on climate action among different agencies of the state.
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