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A NEW CHARTER will be introduced today which will set the direction for local councils in a bid to tackle climate change.
A range of new measures will be adopted requiring all 31 councils to proactively consider the carbon impact of decisions they make.
Each council must establish a procedure for “carbon-proofing” major decisions, programmes and projects, including investments in transport and energy infrastructure.
They will be required to deliver a 50% improvement in energy efficiency over the next 10 years, and ensure all suppliers provide information on their carbon footprint along with steps they plant o take to reduce its impact.
This will include deep retrofits of local authority buildings and social housing stock, cycle network plans for all major cities; sustainable transport for all cities with more than 75,000 people; training for local authority staff; and the roll out of electric vehicle charging networks.
Speaking of the new charter, which was announced in the Government’s climate action plan, Climate Action Minister Richard Bruton said tackling climate change must be at the top of the agenda.
“Last year’s emissions figures show that we do not have time to waste. We must drive forward actions in the Climate Action Plan. Only through consistent, sustained action, can we deliver the step change that is needed.”
A feature of the new charter will be local citizen engagement, particularly with young people, and collaboration on climate action initiatives with local community groups, local enterprises, as well as schools and higher level institutions.
Councils will also have to report how they are implementing the initiatives under the charter every year.
“Local authorities have huge ambitions for what we can achieve in the area of climate action,” Michael Walsh, chair of the County and City Management Association said.
“With support from central government we can do even more and provide the on-the-ground leadership needed to make Ireland a global leader in climate action.
“The Local Authority Climate Action Charter is the blueprint for future progress in creating an Ireland that is sustainable for future generations, and councils around the country are ready to take the lead in this vital work.”
State agencies
Earlier this year, the minister revealed the approach for all state agencies towards a more climate-friendly framework.
One of the new initiatives will see new public procurement framework contracts for electric vehicles be introduced.
This will allow public bodies to purchase electric vehicles with reduced administrative burden.
State bodies like An Post and Inland Fisheries Ireland have already committed to electrifying their fleets.
Under the government’s new initiative, the mandate will require public service bodies to meet a group of requirements, with additional obligations placed on larger public service organisations.
Specific timelines for targets will be set for departments and State agencies. Some of the targets include every public building with public access to display an up-to-date Display Energy Certificate.
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I will just enjoy my annual ride around the sun on this planet in my backyard with a Guinnes!
Yah, enjoy the fallout or the virus whatever it will be.
You’re mixed up, Joe. The after-effects of Guinness isn’t fallout or a virus, silly. It’s just farts.
I don’t know about you but it definitely falls out my arse and the smell is about as lethal as a virus, compared to your average shite.
The usual stunt keep the population living in fear it’s much easier to control them then
Ya know Bill I was thinking what is the motive behind this? What is going to happen?
A big fat nothing.
But people’s state of fear is linked to their consumption…
You only have to read the father of marketing Edward Bernays book “Propaganda” to know that to have a consumer society people must be miserable and in fear.
Fozz, nothing to do with serious escalations in the middle east, over 500 deaths linked to Ebola (worldwide not just Africa and that number is escalating quicker than we realise), over 1/2 million people marching in Hong kong yesterday against Chinese rule, riots in Berlin and Brazil? Take your pick. There’s plenty ‘going to happen’ that is already happening. It’s just kept out of MSM here. So we can go about our happy little lives.
You’re right about increased consumption derived from fear though.
Reminds me of Team B during the cold war. A taskforce commissioned by CIA to quantify and verify Soviet threat to the US.
They made claims that the Soviets were creating or had already created advanced weaponry and systems superior to the US arsenal. Their proof? That the systems were so advanced, they were undetectable, that Russia was just putting on an air of poverty to conceal these super weapons they never had.
To the electorate, there is nothing more scarier than an invisible enemy, lurking around us, which we cannot see, identify, and will strike without mercy. This kind of manipulation lead to the Patriot Act.
Just so long as they don’t want to look up my ass I don’t mind a bit if a delay.
Why… What are ya hiding up there?
Loremolis
They won’t look up your anus. But the TSA will grope a woman’s breasts and vagina even if you are in a wheelchair. The men will endure the same intrusive behaviour ….. Oh don’t take my word for it.
It’s been very well documented.
You can always go in their x ray machine !! Yea I’m sure it’s healthy.
It’s not an X-ray machine and it is harmless.
Paul
What reality are you currently living in ?
The name of the machine used is “backscatter x-Ray” it uses advanced x-Ray technology. It is more powerful and more dangerous than traditional x-ray machines. I would suggest looking it up or at the very least go on the manufactures website and see for yourself just how wrong you are.
The backscatter x-rays have been banned in the EU and they’ve currently replaced all the backscatter with millimetre wave scanners in the US (though the x-ray ones might come back over there as the reason they were removed was only due to a software issue and not because of a ban against them)
John
There was a massive outcry about these dangerous intrusive x-ray machines and TSA groping. People from all walks of life have been kicking up over this for a number of years. Members of Congress, celebs, doctors and millions of others have been very outspoken on this issue.
You don’t get rid of machines because of a software issue.
It wasn’t a bug, they changed the law in the US for the machines to have a certain piece of software and the x-ray machines weren’t able to get it in place in time, so they had to be removed.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/19/tsa_pulls_rapiscan_perv_scanners/
It’s not like their going to admit its because of public outcry.
Don’t believe everything you read.
No they dont….you read the herald far too much
@Glen, well the outcry was the reason the law changed in the first place, either way it doesn’t matter much, my main point is that the X-Ray machines are gone.
But glen you believe everything you read!
David Icke sums it up well.
The z ionists have something big coming, possibly a blackout of the US electrical grid, they’ve been flying kites about it for a good while now.
Possible False Flag event coming this weekend in Texas (maybe).
Lightening struck the Sears on Monday night three times, Obama’s home town… The Zip code is 60606.
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-28115624
Illinois winning lottery number on Obama’s 1st election day – 666 – ( Pick 3 = 666 Pick 4 = 7779 )
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-m3bgjhpSL_U/UUJQ7AWCcxI/AAAAAAAAAaM/vK_o8MlETIU/s1600/555.png
Getting too close for comfort….
We can’t say we weren’t warned lol
John, ,don’t take our word for it, how about the outgoing head of the dept of homeland security, who is a z ionist btw, as is her successor – http://truthstreammedia.com/big-sis-says-cyber-attack-will-bring-down-power-grid-when-not-if/
Preaching to the converted Paul. Cheers for the link.
Sorry thought you were being sarcastic :)
@ Paul Flynn : If there is a grid breakdown, we can expect the following scenario : In THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, Naomi Klein explodes the myth that the global free market triumphed democratically. Exposing the thinking, the money trail and the puppet strings behind the world-changing crises and wars of the last four decades, The Shock Doctrine is the gripping story of how America’s “free market” policies have come to dominate the world– through the exploitation of disaster-shocked people and countries.
At the most chaotic juncture in Iraq’s civil war, a new law is unveiled that would allow Shell and BP to claim the country’s vast oil reserves…. Immediately following September 11, the Bush Administration quietly out-sources the running of the “War on Terror” to Halliburton and Blackwater
http://vimeo.com/26718047#at=0
20th July is the day they have something planned, so they keep telling us in their crypted messages or it could be just a load of bo***x.
Has anyone seen the statement that Snowden is due to release the rest of his encrypted files at the end of the month?? Apparently he’s done the aul save the best till last. I think it’s gonna be big…
I thought it was supposed to be a list of everyone who has been under scrutiny by the NSA (more then the average that everyone has been).
@ Katie Collins : Yes I heard of it . He is convinced the USA will begin a major war very soon. ”July is when war begins unless headed off by Snowden full release of crippling intel. After war begins not a chance of release,”
http://whatsupic.com/news-politics-usa/1404226683.html
@Joe I think he’s sitting on something either to do with an upcoming war or something to at could possibly start another one. Nsa lists are childsplay in comparison to what this could be. Have a look at Padraig’s link there for more information.
It’s probably nothing that’s not known already, I think Snowdens a mis info agent anyway, most the stuff he’s come out with has already been known for a good while, he’s just bringin it to the mainstream gently and slowly
Go back to sleep America.
Go back to sleep yourself….you think there should be no increase in security if threats are confirmed?
you think there should be no increase in security if threats are confirmed?”
- Confirmed by who – by the governments who wants to keep the populations in fear ??
In related news, passport holders of the new Islamic State (formerly known as ISIS) will be exempt from these “unspecified steps”. All other passport holders are advised to practice “assuming the position”.
So something will change somewhere but it won’t have an impact on some people. Good press release!
You’ve got to admire Osama Bin Laden. Possibly the greatest military strategist since Sun Tzu. With no air force, no tanks, no missiles, half a dozen motorbikes and a six figure budget, he’s managed to drag the US into spending trillions on a middle east conflict it can’t get out of, knock out three anti-Islamist regimes, erase a 90 year old border between Iraq and Syria, raise a cohort of home-grown jihais in Europe and cause huge civilian disruption in the US
Well Emily he DID have an airforce albeit very breifly on Sept 11th 2001.Albeit used in a kamikaze role full of civillians.
And unbelievably NORAD was stood down in the face of this threat.
And all the while he was on kidney dialysis and lived in a cave for a long time too, also while on dialysis. The man will go down in history :-)
There was a report a while back that AQ’s chief bomb maker in Yemen was experimenting with a new type of sub-dermal device. Basically it consists of implants like those used in breast implants but instead of saline they were filled with hydrogen peroxide. The implant is inserted into the stomach cavity and the bomber then uses a needle to inject acetone into the implant which then creates a binary explosive that is very unstable. A detonator hidden in a piece of electronic equipment is then held to the stomach and this creates enough of a force to detonate the mix.
I don’t know how advanced they are on this but it would be practically impossible to detect unless you got every fat person boarding the plane to lift their clothing to see if they recently had surgery.
Brian have you just told us all how to make a basic undetectable bomb? Hope you not planning to travel to USA anytime soon. The TSA will be looking very close at any scars.
Thomas it was printed in the Sunday Times and easily available off the Internet. I doubt that I will ever go to the US seeing as I did my final year project on terrorism and no doubt the NSA would be telling the TSA to have a word with me! I mean if they sent home 2 lads for making jokes on twitter they would have a field day with me!
Is anyone else sick of “the war on terror”? Time was when your holiday started as soon as you reached the airport – sadly, no more. The “Terrorists” have definitely won when your average Joe has to put up with an increasing amount of utter shite in order to go anywhere.
FFS Kieran there are about 12 flights a day to the US from here. Reading your comment you’d swear we were living somewhere that has actual problems.
“amid concern that terror groups are developing new explosives to circumvent airport security”
ah lads, come off it. if they circumvent, you won’t catch it. clearly it’s just a “threat level” top up, because there’s something planned or just, you know – the citizens were getting uppity and needed to be reminded that freedom isn’t free, or whatever pamphlets they’re handing around.
never want to go back to the US anyway, TSA is so (deliberately) insulting and demeaning.
Have you seen the footage of where the TSA come over the tannoy and say “Everyone freeze” and you have to freeze right there? If you move or even laugh they haul you away for questioning. Seriously it’s actually as hilarious to watch as it is disturbing.
Guess another false flag is in the air . To distract the people from the crimes that America and Israel are committing already .
Don’t think anyone has the money to go to the USA anymore
According to our great leaders we deserved it after causing the recession
A lot of people are now afraid to go to the USA….On arrival only to be met by TSA Gestapo ..and the possibility of then being booted back by the Feds on the next plane over some trivial Twitter joke..
Nobody gets booted back….you get refused before you are supposed to leave so less of the drama please
Locked up for 12 hours in a holding cell waiting to be Interrogated by armed FBI agents would seem the norm before being frog marched on to a returning flight ……as what happened in this incident. …Readers comments in that article starting from the Best rated sums up the situation well.
But Frank is the ultimate drama conspircy nut Queen we have here.His looney tunes posts are now part of my daily reading and pass for the Funnies page on Journal.ie.
Was over a few weeks ago Frank…got through pre-clearance no bothar in Dublin and arrived in Newark as a domestic passenger. On my way back the TSA agent even said hello and smiled as he checked my passport details and I went through the x ray scanner. I feel fine, sorry I couldn’t tell you a tale of shady CIA agents on my tail as I left the airport or feeling unwell since the scanner experience…oh well.
Well done you on your pleasant experience with the TSA.
I’ve been to American quite a few time and I’ve never came across this TSA Gestapo? Please explain Frank.
Consider yourself lucky John, why don’t you type TSA into YouTube and see what you get.
Rubbish.
I am in the US at the moment, their security and their care for the own population is top class.
We could learn a thing or two from them about who we allow into our country ( ref. Roma story above)
Bollox.
If you call the rubbing up of your genitals by some stranger or getting blasted with radioactive waves just so you can air travel first class security then you’re an absolute fuhking idiot, you’ve more chance to be killed by a jumped up copper over there than by an Islamic terrorist. The TSA isn’t about border security it’s all about exerting power and control over the population, how do we know that now? Because the Mexican border is gone, the flood gates have been opened down there to anyone and they’re welcomed with open arms.
Ok so the first video that comes up is of some dope trying to get a reaction from people doing there job. Pathetic ha.
I’m sure you have no problem with strangers feeling ye up ye probably go for a prostate exam every couple a month ye narcissistic pr!ck ye.
Hahaha internet tough guy paranoid mess is all you are. Is there a reason you use a nickname for your profile haha?
LOL. Xx
Joe the monomaniac.
i don’t see how one would feel negative about going to america if they’ve nothing to hide, if they’re stringent, let them get on with it rather than huff puff. border controls vary from country to country. The US aren’t the only stringent gates. Travel a bit and understand what its there for.
Lobbyist for company who supply millimeter wave scanners: “Mr Congressman, our sales are down, we can’t survive on maintenance alone, we need to boost sales”
Congressman: “But what I can I do, my old friend”
Lobbyist: “We really need to get the EU on board to mandate the use of our technology, that’s a ripe market then for us”
Congressman: “Sure, but how can I do that”
Lobbyist: “We need a vague security scare. Elevate some threat levels, then make people queue for extra time while everyone gets frisked for a couple of weeks due to the threat level”
Congressman: “Aha, then people will be either annoyed or scared, so we can easily set new rules, and the EU airports will have buy lots of scanners”
Lobbyist: “Exactly. How are you liking that ’74 latour?”
Congressman: “It’s no bourbon, but it’ll do”
Its good to know the US takes these security threats seriously, memories are still fresh of the Air India plane deliberatly blown out of the sky by politically motivated terriorists off the west coast in the seventies.
Richardmccarthy….But in this case the US Government is funding and arming the terrorists.
I am traveling to NOLA US in Sep,and as an Irish citizen id like to get there in one piece if possible,if this means increased security guarentees my safety,and that of other passengers,obvously i am in complete agreement.
That was in ’85
richardmccarthy …. Hitch a lift from the Military passing through Shannon….They don’t seem to have any security issues…..
Damn right. Imagine the US ignored it and something actually did happen. It’s too easy for the Irish and everyone else to slate Americans for taking death threats seriously. The twin towers and Boston marathon actually happened in their country. To their people. Same with the UK. Of course people perceive safety precautions to be silly or OTT, while they comment from a country that never experienced such horrific events, ( don’t start about the RA, completely irrelevant)
And their intervention in the middle east: yes it’s multifaceted, yes it’s causing problems, but if the US wasn’t in any way involved, they’d still be killing each other, like they have been for the past few hundred years. It’s kinda their thing.
If Ireland had two planes blown up as acts of terrorism, and had various countries around the middle east actively plotting it’s demise, I’m sure the comments here would be very different.
But your right…..those US idiots…..taking threats seriously because they’ve had thousands murdered by terrorists before……..dopez……
But I do hate TSA.
They always check my luggage and open my stuff and don’t close it properly, and then my clothes get covered in cream and shower gel. And they leave a note to let me know it was them.
Every time.
Security is essential for all travellers to the USA. Enough of these namby pamby measures that won’t affect anyone. There should be full strip and cavity searches for everyone entering the US. Cavity searches deep and hard. That way safety can be guaranteed against the freedom haters.
Treasa, Sorry to have to tell you this but 9/11 was a staged event. Criminal elements within the US government in cooperation with Saudi intelligence took those towers down. The whole war on terror is one massive lie. It’s like Hitler said, “the bigger the lie, the more people will believe it”
Your not telling me anything. I believe in the whole 9/11 conspiracy. I just don’t see why people who have not personally experienced death threats to their country feel they have the authority to disregard the concerns of those who do. Every excuse of “what about the US doing” ect ect doesn’t answer the question, but skirt it.
Yes USA intervention in those countries is part of origin of such threats. believe it or not ordinary Americans do not want their government wasting taxpayers money on wars or funding rebels. The majority of Americans i meet on a daily basis would strangle Obama if they got the chance.
But the US/UK government, like most governments don’t represent the people. And it’s the people who bear the brunt of terrorist attacks.
So if they want to hike up their security because they have very realistic and plausible excuses to, Who are we to slate them? they are the ones getting blown to pieces at marathons, or hacked to death in broad daylight, not us who merely read about it and say “god that’s terrible”.
Treasa I’m trying to comprehend what you are saying. You accept 911 was a staged event. I presume you accept a level of US gov fore knowledge and complicity at the least. The result of it is an Orwellian and patently ridiculous “war on terror” to cow the public into giving up any semblance of their rights. Would you agree? But the important thing is that we applaud the security measures which are foisted upon us, because the of the 911 false flag. I’m confused!
9/11 aside, the US people know the the majority of the world hate them. That alone is enough to cause fear. The US government has caused its own problems , but it’s the people who feel the brunt of terrorism. That’s the point I’m trying to make. And who are we to slate them for hiking up security measures? For them terrorism is very real. Their country is currently involved in a disgustingly violent war in which no one agrees with their interference, even them. You think they don’t know the animosity other countries have towards them?
Hiked up security measures aren’t just for the planes, it will also combat terrorists circulating around Europe and the US. Why is that a bad thing? That confuses me. Is it seen as an infringement on human rights or privacy? I’m not trying to be a smartarse here I’m genuinely asking.
I fly to the US all the time, I don’t mind jumping through hoops and being crucifyingly interrogated by CBP if it’s in the interests of security. I’ve been giving absolute hell by TSA and CBP before, and if it’s any condolence they can be just as horrible to US citizens.
Treasa we agree on one thing, liking American people. I never said I don’t like them. Their country is taken over by undemocratic unseen forces, they know it, we know it. They are scared of course. I can only speak for myself but the American people are not the problem. If more of them wake up something might change. I disagree with you that we should welcome these crazy security measures. We should resist them at least intellectually. If you agree with me about the US gov why do you think all these security measures make anyone safe?
I don’t know if it will or won’t. Maybe terrorists will move on to American schools and shopping centers. But what’s the harm in hiking it up? even if it is the illusion of safety from external forces, while ignoring internal threats (us gov)
Americans don’t trust their government as far as they can throw it, but they have a very realistic fear of terrorism because of what their government is doing, which they have no say in. Increasing airport security in Europe and the us in the midst of the situation right know, with jihadist extremists floating around both continents doesn’t seem unreasonable to me.
Is the issue because it’s intrusive?
Treasa, I know that the majority of Americans don’t want their tax money being spent on multiple illegal wars. Do you not understand that all of these security measures and institutions (Homeland security etc.) exist because of this one event? It is also ridiculous to imply that “you shouldn’t slate them” for making your average person feel like a terrorist when travelling to the US. And most terrorist events in the US are also perpetrated by the federal government. You’re almost there but not quite
Hang on.
So your issue is its intrusive?
So increased security for American citizens, regarding who they let into their country, considering for the last two decades their government have been embroiled in horrific wars, is wrong because it Inconveniences the traveller?
Niall I’m genuinely asking: what is the issue with increased security for who the US lets into their country? If its their country, are they not entitled to do what they want really regarding discretion between who they let in? And what measures they take?
Nobody forces people to travel to the US. if it a truly oppressive, restrictive country, that murders its citizens in top secret CIA projects, and enforces unnecessary intrusive measures, and inconveniences, as you suggest, then people don’t have to go there. But I don’t see how slating Americans over genuine fears and concerns makes sense.
Or are you more concerned with them lying to people? And making them believe they are being threatened? And on that note, was the Boston bombing an inside job too? I know the conspiracy about 9/11, have not heard one iota about Boston.
Ye boston bombing was staged too and yes Obama has authorised the killing of American citizens. My whole point is they don’t care about your security. It’s just a big show of force to make you feel safe from a non-existent threat. You’re more likely to be killed by an infection than by a terrorist. Why is all the money being pumped into anti-terror units and not a much bigger threat like infections? Bees kill more Americans than terrorists aswell. Where’s the bee sting prevention unit?
That’s called Monsanto.
Things must be getting too quiet at the Pentagon. They need at least the War of Terror – and as many others as the can find or generate.
Money needs to be made – and the real enemy of USA – as Gen. McCrystal said were at home ie the people of USA .
Same goes for most countries.
If the people of US cop on to what their government is doing and what they are paying for ??.
So they hype up a security threat so the TSA can grope everyone arriving by plane.at the same time thousands of illegal immigrants are pouring over the border, then being fed and looked after by border patrol agents. I smell a false flag soon
No Niall you smell an idiot in the White House,who wants as many possible future votes on welfare with free govt provided cell phones voting Democrat.
Completely true Ragnar.
You should check out the reports coming from nurses in those refugee camps, regarding the diseases the kids are raging with, and the camp staff being threatened if they talk to the media about it.
Ragnar, I agree with you about expanding their voter base but I actually do smell a false flag coming
Well, if they’re untraceable, why are they bothering to search for them and making the queues longer. Untraceable means just that – they might as well just start searching the passengers’ auras too.
The scaremongering is becoming contagious…
yup.
this is a good article (from 2007) – albeit the author has a dodgy enough CV.
Terrorized by ‘War on Terror’
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/23/AR2007032301613.html
Do terrorists only build bombs at home and then jump on a plane and transport them?
Have they not realised by now that it’s much easier to build it in the territory you intend bombing.
Why the fascination with terrorists and planes? All because of 9/11?
Ahh good old America . Rise that terror threat, get people scared then go invade another country .. It’s all propaganda .
The US says jump and the UK jump!
How do terrorists working out of derelict buildings and the back of 4x4s invent something the mighty US military or one of its contractors hasn’t already made?
If it’s non traceable how do they know about it and how do they intend to actually (if this report is to be believed) detect and counter this?
Just sounds like more propaganda and spin which will no doubt lead to more civil liberties being removed or violated and more invasive means of screenings for everyone going about their normal already made stressful travels due to existing security.
Personally I believe we have given into to manufactured terrorist threats enough with the level of check points and screenings which exist.
Every train and bus should have the same level of security and checks if there was a real threat. Instead we have policy’s and procedures in place which only remind us of our place, that we must give in to big governments intrusions who apparently are here for our protection and I should be OK that they can feel me up and search me like a criminal everything I need to travel on holidays or for work.
Why should we tighten up security, it’s the english who are starting a war. They need their little psychodramas to put their population in a flap and pass a few sly little laws.
It’s not the very low probability of a terrorist incident which bothers me but the intrusive and ineffective security checks and searches. The technology for scanning at airports seems highly unreliable and unpredictable in its results.
I wonder if these security measures are a mere nominal gesture.
I avoid air travel to the maximum extent possible and many others are starting to take a similar approach. It’s safer if we are really to believe that terrorism is such a high risk.
When they say they are tightening up security, do they mean they’ve been half assing it up till now?
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