Mapping the Future of Environmental Justice

EPA National Water Event 2013, Galway, 12-13 June

Presentations now available for download here:

http://www.epa.ie/pubs/reports/other/events/oee/2013nationalwaterevent/

http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_SPEECH-13-554_en.htm

http://www.environ.ie/en/Environment/News/MainBody,33521,en.htm

Details of progress here:

http://www.environ.ie/en/Environment/News/MainBody,33495,en.htm

The Department of Environment, Community and Local Government has launched a public consultation process on Ireland’s implementation of the Aarhus Convention.

The process will result in the development of Ireland’s first National Implementation Report 2014.

A preliminary draft of the implementation report has been prepared and comments are now invited from stakeholders, members of the public and other interested parties.

The draft report, and further information around the public consultation process, is available at:  http://www.environ.ie/en/Environment/AarhusConvention/PublicConsultations/

Responses and Access to Information

Comments on the first phase of this public consultation should be submitted by email or by post no later than 5pm on Friday 9 August 2013 to the addresses below:

Email:                    ACConsultation@environ.ie

Post:                      Environment Policy Section Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government Newtown Road Wexford

Please note that all submissions and comments submitted to the Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government for this purpose are subject to release under the Freedom of Information Acts 1997 and 2003 and under the European Communities (Access to Information on the Environment) Regulations (2007 to 2011) and may be placed on the Department’s website.

Questions

Any questions should be referred to ACConsultation@environ.ie

Judgment of Hogan J in Wicklow County Council v Fortune (No 2) [2013] IEHC 255, delivered 6 June 2013 is available on the Courts Service website

http://www.courts.ie/

Commentary in the Irish Times 17 June 2013:

‘High Court ruling on retention of Wicklow home sets an ‘unhappy precedent’ says planners’ http://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/high-court-ruling-on-retention-of-wicklow-home-sets-an-unhappy-precedent-planners-1.1429084