Gerry McGovern

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"The government now wants to make it super expensive (>€100,000) for ordinary people to go to court to protect the environment.
The Government is currently engaged in an extremely short consultation on proposed rules to cap legal costs when you go to court and hold the state to account for breaking environmental law.
If you think this is wrong, make your views known by emailing
[email protected] by 15 January.

Jan 10 at 12:04pmWeb
Show threadThe Polish DispatchJan 10
@gerrymcgovern Why they do this?
Show threadGerry McGovernJan 10
@ThePolishDispatch to stop ordinary people from being able to protest against developments that would harm the environment, such as data centers
Show threadKevinOnEarthJan 10
@gerrymcgovern @ThePolishDispatch
Sounds like the kind of rationale that would typically come under coercion by the Trump regime.
Show threadDeixis9Jan 11

@ThePolishDispatch @gerrymcgovern

Maybe data centres, are there plans to set up more?

But also;

Definitely, to stop small mysteriously funded groups putting blocks on renewable energy projects like wind farms?

Possibly, to stop regulations being placed on agriculture which damages the environment?.

#climatechange

Show threadGerry McGovernJan 11

@Deixis9
Lots of plans for more data centers.

And there are lots of very legitimate local communities rightly opposed to wind factories that do incredible damage to nature. All round the world, wind factories are destroying wild nature and wiping out Indigenous communities. 1 GW of wind causes 600,000 ton of radioactive rare earth waste for this so-called "renewable" energy. Meanwhile, coal and oil are booming because there's no such thing as an energy transition.

@ThePolishDispatch

Show threadKen M SweeneyJan 11
@gerrymcgovern have you got in touch with the #SocialDemocrats Gerry?
Show threadGerry McGovernJan 11
@TheComfortableSpotPodcast no, Ken. Do you have contact details?
Show threadKen M SweeneyJan 12
@gerrymcgovern I think your best bet is to get in touch with the main office. It's a small set up so they are quick to give a response.